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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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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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Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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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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