"The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices."
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"There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice."
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"Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image."
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"I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced."
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"It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality."
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"Every word is a prejudice."
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"Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man."
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"You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices."
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"Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible."
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"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first."
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"What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?"
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"The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature."
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"Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null."
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"Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake."
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"It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers."
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"My intention has been to encourage viewers to face their prejudices about prostitution, sex and aging while reflecting on the complex and varied forms that love and loneliness can take."
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