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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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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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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 partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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 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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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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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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 scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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