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“I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.”

Thinking Men Littles Stills Important Reason Today Dies House Share Minutes Style Late Prejudice Important Things Bunch Familiar Retiring Polish Life Style

Author:Margaret Mead

“Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.”

“It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.”

“... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.”

“The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to kill Muslims and Jews and cried, "God will's it." That was their battle cry. Obviously God willed no such thing. The Crusaders were simply projecting onto a deity they'd created on their own image and likeness, all their hatred and loathing of these faiths and made it endorse some of their most awful prejudices and lethal prejudices.”

People Made Happened Share Cry Battle Hatred Prejudice Assuming Jew Likes Gods Will Awful Made It Dislike Cried Deities Atrocities Loathing Likes And Dislikes Battle Cry

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.”

Knows Share Subjects Prejudice

Author:Leon Botstein

“The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.”

Knows Values Accepting Share Integrity Prejudice Dear Republic Partiality

Author:Allen West

“The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless trust and hope. The response to prejudice and hatred is forgiveness. To work for community is to work for humanity. To work for peace is to work for a true political solution; it is to work for the Kingdom of God. It is to work to enable every one to live and taste the secret joys of the human person united to the eternal.”

“You are determined to hate him [Snape], Harry,” said Lupin with a faint smile. “And I understand; with James as your father, with Sirius as your godfather, you have inherited an old prejudice. By all means tell Dumbledore what you have told Arthur and me, but do not expect him to share your view of the matter; do not even expect him to be surprised by what you tell him. It might have been on Dumbledore’s orders that Severus questioned Draco.”

Mean Has Beens Said Matter Might Hate Order Father Views Share Prejudice Determined Might Have Been Arthur Hate Him Snape Sirius Draco

Author:J. K. Rowling

“An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.”

Men Nations Half Democracy Share Honest Stupid Politician Prejudice Election Honestly Cynical Very Stupid Stupid Men

Book:Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell

Source: Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell

“The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.”

Reality Share Normal Prejudice Favors Insane

Book:Love's Body

Source: Love's Body

“When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.”

People Mean Share Prejudice Objectives Conclusion

Book:The decline and fall of science

Source: The decline and fall of science

“As you go forth and share our core beliefs and the fruits of our doctrines, misperceptions will dissolve, prejudices will diminish, and people will come to see Latter-day Saints as devout disciples of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”

“If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.”