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Letter "P" » prejudices
«Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to»
«Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.»
Author: Naomi Weisstein
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Keywords:
differences,
expectations,
genitals,
immutable,
irrelevant,
prejudices,
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sexes,
social,
some other,
unchangeable
«Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.»
Author: Albert Einstein
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Physicist)
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About:
Common sense
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Keywords:
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age,
Age to Age,
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«Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.»
Author: Victor Hugo
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Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
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heads,
murderers,
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No Fear,
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souls,
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vices
«I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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President)
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Keywords:
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Corporations,
corruption,
endeavor,
enthrone,
enthroned,
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era,
eras,
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republic,
The Corporation,
The Republic
«He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice»
«Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.»
Author: Albert Einstein
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Physicist)
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About:
Intelligence,
Prejudice
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Keywords:
courageously,
Great Spirit,
hereditary,
honestly,
intelligence,
latter,
opposition,
oppositions,
prejudices,
spirits,
submit,
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thoughtlessly,
uses,
violent
«Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment»
«All words are prejudices»
«I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.»