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I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield.
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When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Phyllis McGinley
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I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.
S. T. Joshi
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The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.
Tom Stoppard
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I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.
Stefanie Powers
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
Samuel Horsley
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
Allan Bloom
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.


Adlai E. Stevenson
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.
George Stephenson
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.


Will Durant
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.


Ambrose Bierce
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Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.


Arnold Schwarzenegger
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My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.


Chen Guangcheng
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I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.


Bono
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Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.


Eric Hoffer
A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
Lara St. John
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Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.


Charlie Sifford
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.


Alexander Cockburn
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