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"People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."
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"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."
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"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."
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"You have to learn to look at things in a new way."
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"The quest for knowledge is a process of self-awareness."
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"Life is a series of processes and struggles."
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"The heart of the wise person is a mirror to the world."
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"You are not responsible for the actions of others, only for your own."
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"Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one."
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"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."
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"We are not slaves to our circumstances; we are slaves to our minds."
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"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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