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

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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Cloe Discover Link Many Patricia Prejudice Studies
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
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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Another Dying Life Must Suffer Purpose Tell
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
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
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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Category Event Experience Fresh Handle New Occur Old Redacted Right
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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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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