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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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 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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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
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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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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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