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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Become Expose Knowledge Prejudice President Reversible
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
The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
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Accomplish Bell Continue Dog Edible Experiment Hear Least Offer Salivate Sometimes Unless
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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Almost Always Bigot Extremely Patriot Super
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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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
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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Assignment Assume Comfort Easy Know Much Ourselves Really Score Since Think Time
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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Accept Citizen Desirable Set Goal Good Neighbour Parent Socially Specific Successive
Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Cloe Discover Link Many Patricia Prejudice Studies
The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Goal Intention Long Our Ourselves Range Specific Subsidiary
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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Accept Answer Continue Each Find Grow Indignity Must Out Prescribe Responsibility Spite Succeed
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Commitment Create Fewer More Nature never Question Scientist Very Way
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
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
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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