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• When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.

  Paulo Coelho

  Usual, World, Steps

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• As you go forth and share our core beliefs and the fruits of our doctrines, misperceptions will dissolve, prejudices will diminish, and people will come to see Latter-day Saints as devout disciples of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Jesus, People, Saint

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• Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

  Michael Jackson

  Ignorance, Hatred, Boundaries

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• Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Heart, Reflection, Names

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.166, Oxford University Press

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• Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

  David Oyelowo

  Excellence, Weapons

  "David Oyelowo creates a tortured soul in HBO's 'Nightingale'". Interview with Lynn Elber, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. May 28, 2015.

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• Ive been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

  Rosamund Pike

  Summer, Pride, Marine

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• There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

  Peter Mullan

  Peaceful, Aggression, Competitiveness

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• I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

  Saffron Burrows

  Party, School, Organization

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• We don’t come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to protect our young people’s minds from those evils.

  Kerry Washington

  Hate, Kids, Racism

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• Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Ideas, Progress

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• I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Family, Pride, Feelings

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.96

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• Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

  H. G. Wells

  Beach, Heart, Men

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• If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Names, Church, Firsts

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Beautiful, Dark, Garden

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• The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals... They are out to get the health food industry...And they are trying to do this out of active hostility and prejudice.

  William Proxmire

  Dark, Fda, Vitamins And Minerals

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• It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

  Edward Coke

  Law, Suffering, Peculiar

  Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave (1832). “The ... Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Or, a Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself : Including Also the Notes of Lord Chief Justice Hale and Lord Chancellor Nottingham, and an Analysis of Littleton, Written by an Unknown Hand in 1658 - 9”, p.524

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• Since people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the state in its capacity of umpire is unavoidable, What must be kept in mind is that the greatest in of all is done when the umpire forgets that he too is bound by the rules, and begins to make them as between contestants in behalf of his own prejudices.

  Felix Morley

  Mean, Government, Umpires

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• Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Religious, Believe, School

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.253, Columbia University Press

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• Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Media, Common Sense, Layers

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• I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Science, Errors, Engineering

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• This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Mean, Clouds, Illumination

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• The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Running, Mind, Break

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.624, Delphi Classics

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• Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Fighting, Men

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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• The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices or guarantee your health, wealth, and happiness and demand that God 'follow through' as promised. God is not limited to the words of Scripture. God is still speaking.

  Mel White

  Book, Wealth And Happiness, Support

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• The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other's world without prejudice...a complex, demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.

  Carl Rogers

  Strong, Moving, Mean

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