#prejudices

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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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

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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

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Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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

— Sydney Smith

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More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#chance #even #get #giving #had

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#easier #house #human #human-nature #man

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

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