Far from learning, adults simply become set in a maze of prejudices and dreams and sets of rules whose origins they do not know and would not dare inspect for fear the whole structure might topple over on them.
 John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951). copy citation

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Author John Steinbeck
Source The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Topic prejudice fear
Date 1951
Language English
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