Joseph de Maistre Quotes
Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.
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I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.
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Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
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Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.
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Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
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We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
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Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.
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Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
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If we look at the representatives of two superpowers - America and Britain - and look at their conduct and their language, we would notice that they are more motivated by war than their responsibility for peace.
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At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
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Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.
