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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Fact Generalization Given Large Make Rush Thimbleful Tub
An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.
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Accident Associate Battle Center Depend Experience Least Original Permanent Stock
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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Cloe Discover Link Many Patricia Prejudice Studies
Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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Away Derive Experience Formed Loyalty Major Once Promlonge Take Unhappiness
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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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Adolescence Adult However Include Life Love Loyalty Onward Personality Surets
If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.
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Another Dying Life Must Suffer Purpose Tell
The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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Become Discover Knowledge Look Needle Ourselves Outline Psychology Supplies Uniqueness
Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Best Comprise Form Give Love Receive Therapy
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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Country Despise Like never Once Remark Story Student
Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Expose Knowledge New Only Prejudgement Prejudice Reversible
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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Accident Association Center Dynamic Human Life Long Permanent System

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