Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
GORDON ALLPORTThwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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