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

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Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

Celia Green

#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.”
“There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.”
“Inwardly, I gouged my eyes out.”
“I'm not a big fan of plastic surgery. Because it looks like you had plastic surgery.”
“Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.”
“I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.”

Source : "Footloose's Craig Brewer, Julianne Hough, and Kenny Wormald". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.
“I like to walk, touch living Mother Earthâ€”bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.”
“Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.”

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