Bias Quotes - Page 13

• I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

  Gish Jen

  Thinking, Climate, Males

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

  Rod Serling

  Bias And Prejudice, Make Me Angry, Prejudice

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I have been very concerned about media bias and the total dishonesty of the press. I think new media is a great way to get out the truth.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Media, Way

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• The whole Universe is on your side. Life is forever biased on the side of healing, on the side of overcoming, on the side of success. When you get yourself centered in the Universal flow you become synchronized with this divine bias for good.

  Eric Butterworth

  Healing, Your Side, Forever

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• There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

  Elon Musk

  Risk, Trying, Covering

  "Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

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• People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener.

  Page Hamilton

  Song, People, Musical

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• If the group has a negative social mood, believing that tomorrow will be worse than today, the bias goes in the opposite direction. Instead of "welcoming" we have "rejecting," instead of "global" we tend to see events that are "local" and so forth.

  John L. Casti

  Believe, Opposites, Groups

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• Donald Trump refused to outline a health care plan. And they just kind of moved on, instead of pressing him on it. He gave a ridiculous answer on the national debt. And they moved on without pressing him on it. No other candidate could have gotten away with that. So, I think there's a weird bias here in the media rooting for Donald Trump, because they know he's the easiest Republican to beat.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Media, Moved On

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.

  Kathleen Rooney

  Believe, Perspective, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is certainly true that conservative Christians are much more likely to doubt the reality of climate change than mainline Christians or the unaffiliated. But when we control for political affiliation and for the important role of thought leaders in determining our opinions on social issues such as climate change, most of the faith-related bias disappears.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Reality, Issues

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Where the differences came in was the patina of ideology which the news media laid over everything. There's certainly a bias, to some degree, in the way the media portrays the military. I'm not saying that's entirely wrong - the Fourth Estate is there to hold generals and colonels accountable for their actions and decisions - but having reporters on the scene, reporting in real time certainly complicates things for the military mission.

  Dave Abrams

  Military, Real, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity

  Henry Clarence Thiessen

  Men, Evil, Want

  Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.191, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

  Garrett Graff

  Thinking, People, Prejudice

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• We almost need to cultivate - I hate to sound New Age-y - but to cultivate a positive bias, and really work to focus on those things and notice those things that are wonderful and uplifting.

  Moby

  Uplifting, Hate, Focus

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.

  Steve Pavlina

  Strong, Reading, Successful

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• I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.

  David Poole

  Liars, Believe, Giving

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• Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, One Direction

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• No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.

  Nelson Mandela

  Teacher, School, Names

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• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it ... The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.

  Learned Hand

  Freedom, Lying, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The biggest issue about the height factor is the bias that the NFL has about it.

  Doug Flutie

  Nfl, Issues, Height

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• I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Police, Lasts, Empresses

  Lee Kuan Yew (2015). “The Singapore Story (Student Edition): Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.154, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

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• The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Blessing, Talent, Born

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• Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.

  Tom Graves

  Thinking, Needs, Sometimes

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• To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Profound, Cosmos, Purpose

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