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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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