"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."

-- Margaret Halsey

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!”
“Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.”
“It would seem unlikely that a manufacturer of short-lived paperboard boxes could make the slightest cultural impact upon his time. But the facts show that if even the humblest product is designed, manufactured, and distributed with a sense of human values and with a taste for quality, the world will recognize the presence of a creative force.”
“Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.”

Source : William Henry Hudson (2010). “Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest”, p.111, The Floating Press
“A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.”
“...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.”
“Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.”
“People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite”

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