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“If we were the problem, it would be very convenient, kick Greece out, everything's fine. But what happened to Spain? What about Portugal? What about Italy? What about the whole of the Eurozone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice about what has to happen.”

Ifs Needs Whole Problem Happens Would Be Fine Prejudice Kicks Zone Cooperation Spain Greece Convenient Euro Simplification Portugal

Author:George Papandreou

“Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”

Firsts Bigs Happens Action Acting Steps Break Plans Prejudice Planning First Steps Bias Biased Small Steps

Author:Indira Gandhi

“It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.”

World Wells Said Dream Happens Today Color Prejudice Forests Anarchism Anarchist True Colors Hatchet

Book:Fugitive writings

Source: Fugitive writings

“For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, circa 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.”

Firsts Looks Said Use Happens Able Beautiful First Time India Prejudice Property Embarrassed Purple Elegance Silk Rags

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!”

World Happens Mother Felt Parent Opinion Advice Horror Discovery Prejudice Folks Realising Superiority Propositions Scorned

Book:Love Over Scotland

Source: Love Over Scotland

“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

“The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.”

People Persons Long Happens Given Results Thousand Long Time Prejudice Pressure Chains Obscure Reformers Modification Cumulative

Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.”

Believe Happens Justice Prejudice Virtuous

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

“A conventional person can be restrained by the prejudices of its tradition. Convention has too many prejudicial restraints. But unconventional is good, because what happens is the heart is open, it's free, it's non-judgmental. It's not accommodating, but it's embracing, there is a difference. To accommodate means it's already condescending, you condescend to accommodate. To embrace is free, it's totally free.”

Heart Mean Persons Happens Differences Tradition Prejudice Embrace Conventions Conventional Restraint Judgmental Accommodate Unconventional Condescending Non Judgmental

Author:Maya Tiwari

“It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.”

Men Character Happens Novel Demand Majors Female Prejudice Narrative Runners Discomfort Female Characters Kites

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.”

“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”

Happens Race Prejudice Unity Conquer Divides Pits Against Religion Divide And Conquer

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.”

Mind Happens Belief Accepting Impossible Ready Pride Achievement Miracle Prejudice Greed Contrary Contrary To Popular Belief

Author:Julie Andrews

“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”

Sometimes Happens Fall Understanding Animal Weakness Prejudice Wounds Faculty High Places Concussions

Book:The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick

Source: The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick