#prejudices

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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.


Georg C. Lichtenberg


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


Sydney Smith


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Every person's true identity is beautiful, and much of the ugliness we observe in others was put inside of them by external influences.


Bryant McGill


#personal-identity #prejudices #beauty

A stereotype is not a stereotype if it's true.


Ron DeLegge II


#prejudices #racism #stereotypes #racism

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.


Charlotte Bronte


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It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.


Wendell Willkie


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Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.


Remy de Gourmont


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Prejudices save time.


Robert Byrne


#save #time

The air is the only place free from prejudices.


Bessie Coleman


#free #only #place #prejudices

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.


Henry Louis Gates


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