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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
Prejudice

"Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."

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Jane Austen Novelist
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"Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance."

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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
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"A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
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"Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?"

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
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"To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is..."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption."

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