"One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior."

Prejudice, Bias, Truth, Power, Life

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"One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior."

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"One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior."

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"I don't know any homophobic people. That suggests fear.The people I know who hate gay folks are:illiterate, nescient, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unschooled, untaught, backward, benighted, primitive, unenlightened, blockheaded, dense, doltish, hebetudinous, obtuse, stupid, thickheaded, thick-wittedBut not homophobic."

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"...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle - solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo, or as the memory of hyacinths which once scented the darkness."

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"Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding."

Thomas Willis, English Scientist

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"We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated."

Edward James Olmos, American Actor

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"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."

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"Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves."

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"Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties."

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"There is no God in Buddha's teachings. There is no religious ritual in Buddha's teachings. All that there is, is simple "Karma or "Work " that is the "Dhamma or "Duty or "Religion he preached."

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"Character- building education is what the world needs " education, that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say "some other time, pal!"

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"You don't need to see yourself through the delusional eyes of the society. It's the society that needs to see you, through your eyes."

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"Any thought sequence that minimizes anxiety would get reinforced over time. The sequence would be maintained during the person's development and would be provoked in contexts where refutation of the belief might occur. So, any kind of refutation of a person's religious beliefs makes the beliefs only stronger."

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"All changes are born within."

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"Either one is promiscuous or in a relationship - it cannot be both at the same time."

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"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

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