#adopted

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. ↗

— George Bancroft

#blindly #easily #first #ignorance #interest

When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#away #democratic #field #foreign #foreign policy

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#although #born #commence #country #first

Because I used to go and watch him rehearsing for pantomime, and I have adopted some of those priciples, like try to be on time, learn your script, how he approach it, etc. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#approach #because #etc #go #him

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#attitude #baptists #because #believe #between

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#bmw #family #get #gratification #i

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. ↗

— William Cobbett

#adopted #generally #integrity #men #obstinate

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#arrive #concern #conclusions #exposition #follow

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. ↗

— Steven Wright

#darwin #evolution #theory

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#adopted #before #born #grew #her