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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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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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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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