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“If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.”

“Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.”

Source: Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18

“There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow.”

Long Ends Grows Causes History Tree Racism Prejudice Greed Wave Distrust Curves Racial Prejudice Internment Oscillation

Book:Heart Mountain: A Novel

Source: Heart Mountain: A Novel

“One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.”

Ifs Way Giving Firsts Ideas Ends Would Be Earth Form Religion Gone Prejudice Ancient Deeper Insight Folly New Ideas Threatening Foe Better Life

Book:The Greek Way

Source: The Greek Way

“Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can.”

People Trying I Can Ends Culture Can Do Tears Comfort Prejudice Tendencies Destructive Zone Comfort Zone Ruts

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.”

Ideas Ends Self Feelings Prejudice Shame Fingers Naked Appearing Starks Axioms Reproach Nudity

Book:Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana ... from the Year 1772 to 1777 ; Elucidating the History of that Country and Describing Its Productions, Viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, [etc.] Trees, Shrubs, [etc.] with an Account of the Indians and Negroes of Guinea

Source: Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana ... from the Year 1772 to 1777 ; Elucidating the History of that Country and Describing Its Productions, Viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, [etc.] Trees, Shrubs, [etc.] with an Account of the Indians and Negroes of Guinea

“We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.”

Ends Nations Common Policy Elements Tradition Prejudice Catholic Spots Remembered Aspiration Protestants Scotch Vibrate

Author:Wilfrid Laurier

“I think there's an awakening now of a realization that we too early congratulated ourselves on the end of racial prejudice and white supremacy. And that was a feeling that we had when I was president, that we had pretty much overcome that problem.”

Thinking Ends Feelings Problem President White Overcoming Prejudice Awakening Realization White Supremacy Supremacy Racial Prejudice

Author:Jimmy Carter

“If I didn't end up talking about the things that I care about, I wouldn't be myself. I didn't like the idea that I would be a different person on the internet than I would be in real life. And I see people struggling. I see people who face prejudice and people who feel invisible. And I recognize that I already have a built-in platform that I can utilize so easily to actually do something.”

People Ifs Feels Persons I Can Ideas Different Real Ends Would Be Care Faces Talking Struggle Internet Built Prejudice Real Life Invisible Platforms I Care

Author:Amandla Stenberg

“There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost.”

Thinking Years Ends Taken Honest Industry Prejudice Sexuality Being Honest Music Industry Movie Industry Roost

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.”

Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

“Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.”

Ends Humanity Language Views Diversity Prejudice Selfishness Welfare Consideration Brotherhood Nationality Unity In Diversity Pragmatism

Author:John Amos Comenius

“No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.”

Ifs Men Should May Ends Certain Parent Wise Prove Prejudice Awe Contempt Wiser

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.”

Men Ends States Belief Church Religious Dark Secret Atheism Prejudice Defeat Presidential Thrive Religious Belief Despicable Cockroaches Secret Society Religious Prejudice

Author:William Howard Taft

“The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.”

War Ends Saws Events News Negative Prejudice Iraq Viewers Unfolding Coverage Iraq War Embedded Biased Juxtaposition News Coverage

Author:Dick Morris

“The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.”

Thinking Mean Art Said Two Different Ends Form Black White Talking Creativity Photography Prejudice Photographer Colour Nonsense Black And White Talking Nonsense

Author:Edward Weston

“At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty.”

Men Two Ends Matter Left Given Understanding Wind Pride Quiet Mercy Prejudice Affection Loyalty Ships Two Things Swings Tides Everlasting Harbors Anything And Everything

Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

“In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.”

People Ifs Knows Way Ends Age Lost Dark Internet Offers Prejudice Versions Eras Shifting Dark Ages

Author:Michael Crichton

“In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.”

Ends Prejudice Academy Repression Grove Vistas Gallows

Author:Edmund Burke