"Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument."
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"Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified."
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"I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science."
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"Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'"
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"Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you."
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"The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word...Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos."
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"Give me a prejudice and I will move the world."
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"Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others."
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"It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism."
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"There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die."
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"What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects."
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"A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice."
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"I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around."
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"I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices."
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"And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth."
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"There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others-"
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"I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods."
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"No man can see his own prejudices."
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"Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it."
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"I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice."
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