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- However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
- Jean De La Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.
- Author Unknown
- Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.
- Johann Georg Zimmermann
- Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil."
- Macduff
- The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
- Frederick The Great (1712 - 1786)
- Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.
- Duchess de Abrantes
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