#prejudices

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

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I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. ↗

— W. C. Fields

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Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian. ↗

— Robert Towne

#attracted #been #being #culture #ethnic

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. ↗

— Carlo Goldoni

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Prejudices save time. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#save #time

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#colonies #different #establishing #exaggerated #instrumental

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

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Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. ↗

— Frederick II

#greatest #new #next #noblest #off