It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
GORDON ALLPORTLife is too short so we must generalize.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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