"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room."

Prejudice, Custom

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"Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there."

Ryan White, American Celebrity

Prejudice, Right, School

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

Edward James Olmos, American Actor

Prejudice, Today, Years

"Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks."

Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

Prejudice, Years

"Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?"

Christina Engela, South African Author

Prejudice, Fear, Blood, Health

"There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Prejudice,

"...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."

George Eliot, British Author

Prejudice, Memory, Subtlety, Perception

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

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Prejudice, Burden, Past, Future

"Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected."

Marilyn French, American Author

Prejudice, Inferiority, Ideals

"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."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Prejudice, Bias, Truth, Power, Life

"Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Prejudice, Worry, Social, Family

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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

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"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

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"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

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"We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit."

Self

"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

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"Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there."

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

"Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks."

"Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?"

"There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice."

"...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."

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

"Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected."

"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."

"Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds."

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"The incentive to ambition is the love of power."

"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

"We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit."

"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."