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

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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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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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