"To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes."

-- Clifford Geertz

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“Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.”
“You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.”
“I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.”
“I'd love to be able to fit in a box. Like one of those people who fit into small boxes. I'd love it.”
“There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.”
“Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its own cathedrals which one generation of builders wrought and vanished, and another followed, until, amidst vicissitudes of time and change, of decline and revival, the order itself became a temple of Freedom and Fraternity.”

Source : Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.124, Lulu Press, Inc
“I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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