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A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

~Gordon W. Allport

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Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

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Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

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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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The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

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To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.

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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

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So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

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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. 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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What is familiar tends to become a value.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: November 11th, 1897

Died: October 9th, 1967

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