"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."

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Source : "Literary and Historical Miscellanies" by George Bancroft, New York: Harper, (p. 430), 1855.

George Bancroft

#Ignorance Quotes #Prejudice Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative effects of others' actions. It is like a set of invisible mirrors that surround individuals, households or firms, reflecting back on them the consequences of their acts. The industrious will reap the benefits of their industry; the frugal the consequences of their frugality; the improvident and the profligate likewise. They receive their due, which is to say they experience justice as a matter of routine.”
“A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.”

Source : "Advancing the Dream Through Education" by Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2013.
“Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.”
“People don't want the raw data, but instead want marketers to decipher the tech speak for them and present the valuable insights.”
“I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.”
“I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.”
“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”

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