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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.

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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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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 mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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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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