"Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education."

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Source : David Ruggles (1834). “The "extinguisher" Extinguished!: Or, David M. Reese, M.D. "used Up."”, p.13

David Ruggles

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“Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.”

Source : John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Ezekiel 1- 12 (Annotated Edition)”, p.84, Jazzybee Verlag
“Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.”
“You also get so wound up playing a show that a lot of people need something to bring them down. People who don't know how to handle the situation take drugs. I didn't. I went back to my room with milk and cookies.”

Source : FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Jul 25, 2014
“The men who have gotten women pregnant need to be accountable if we are. If we are going to jail, the men are coming too. Religious rhetoric will bite its own ***** trying to nail only women in a two-person process.”
“It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.”
“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”
“The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization.”
“But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.”

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