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• Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

  Indira Gandhi

  Acting, Small Steps, Prejudice

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• Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

  Linus Pauling

  Rejection, Effort, World

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• Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.

  Alan Alda

  Light, Hands, People

  "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself". Book by Alan Alda, abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2007.

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• When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You're able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And, you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Heart, Eye

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context, the reader's bias and current realities. The more you study the Bible, the more questions it raises. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says.

  Rob Bell

  Book, Reality, Historical

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• My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

  Abdul Kalam

  Views, Imagination, Optimism

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• We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced-and sometimes strongly-by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.

  August Krogh

  Truth, Science, Ideas

  August Krogh (1959). “The anatomy and physiology of capillaries”

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• Good managers have a bias for action.

  Tom Peters

  Prejudice, Action, Management

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• The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

  Curt Weldon

  Media, Want, Facts

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• Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Genius, Compass

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• The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

  Mary Douglas

  Ideas, Organization, Prejudice

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• Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world.

  James Jeans

  Nature, Science, Men

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.115, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration?

  Newt Gingrich

  Keys, Catholic, Church

  "2012 ABC/Yahoo!/WMUR New Hampshire GOP primary debate". GOP primary debate, www.washingtonpost.com. January 7, 2012.

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• We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

  Anita Hill

  Race, Justice, Prejudice

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• That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

  John Amery

  Civilization, Political, Prejudice

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• I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

  Rand Paul

  Needs, Certain, Careful

  "Ron Paul Accuses Chris Matthews over Civil Rights Act". “Hardball” with Chris Matthews, www.eutimes.net. May 15, 2011.

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• I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

  Tony Benn

  Funny, Strong, Humor

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• It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

  Augustus Hare

  Loss, Evil, Prejudice

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• The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Travel, Heaven, Prejudice

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.243

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• Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Produce, Users

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.71, 1988.

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• If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Peace, Years, Prejudice

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• I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  War, Believe, Past

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• I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

  Henry Bessemer

  Ideas, Practice, Long

  Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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• I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

  Dan Abrams

  Thinking, Issues, Prejudice

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• I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

  Lesley Stahl

  Political, Trying, Prejudice

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