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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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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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