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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed.
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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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