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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

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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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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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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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