"...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, Memory, Subtlety, Perception

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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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"I have no prejudice against male or female."

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

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

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"Islamophobia defines whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman."

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"You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing."

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"Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."

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"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."

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"There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself."

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"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."

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"A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought."

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"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."

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"If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for."

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