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If they made 'Pride & Prejudice 2,' Lydia would become more of a tragic figure,

If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.

Ignorance is not due to lack of education. Ignorance is a state of mind that refuses the temptation of looking into the facts, that craves for the twisted, inflammatory interpretation of the facts that nourishes the prejudice in it to stay the course and expand, at the cost of totally dumping the intelligence the Creator put in it.

There is an act of prejudice against us, and there needs to be great efforts to correct this. Clear sentences and words should be put into the draft to remove uncertainty,

Jake and I chatted at length and a compromise has been reached. We have agreed to carefully manage the players (in other words, they will not be run into the ground) and in return there will be no prejudice against them when Jake selects his squad for the end-of-year tour.

I think it was somebody with too much time on their hands, and maybe they have a little bit of prejudice in their heart and just vented it.

Lawmakers should be clear that the United States remains committed to ensuring lesbian and gay Americans are treated just like their heterosexual counterparts in the security clearance process. Our national security is too important to be undermined by prejudice and discrimination.

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.

My Museum creates an exciting new space that encourages children to celebrate their differences. This exhibit will build on the goals of a previous exhibit, Face to Face, that occupied the Lehman Gallery. It will be a place where respect for diversity is experienced firsthand, modeled and taught in order to combat prejudice through critical thinking, empathy development and positive self-esteem.

It is disturbing to me that they can arrest and keep you without charge and disappear you off the face of the Earth because of the way your name was spelled. There's a tremendous prejudice the government seems to be applying that scares me. We should hold rigidly to the rule that you have to have a search warrant. Holding people incognito is outrageous.

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

We have a lot of systemic, built-in bias and prejudice ? not just against race, but against those others who are different than the majority of us in this country.

You know, there's prejudice both ways. A lot of people just don't know their history before they start judging.

We know there was tremendous pressure from the community not to grant us the variance and we have a strong feeling that some prejudice was involved.

We released (that) at a time when we anticipated audience interest in the title to be exceptional. Similarly, we will release Pride & Prejudice on Feb. 28, as the anticipation for the Academy Awards reaches its pinnacle.

The prosecution's case was based on passion, prejudice and emotion for what happened 20 to 30 years ago.

He hears but half who hears one party only.

An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I once impressedas snotty and superior, and together they will provide a convenient excuse to disbelieve me.

The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.

We must take the profit out of prejudice.

Those who perpetrated such acts intend to sabotage what we are doing and prejudice us,

To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.

We were told we should not pay any attention to John Roberts views and religion and now we are told that opinions and religion do matter. I believe there is a degree of sexism here. . .and ivy league prejudice going on here.

Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature.

We all have a prejudice about action films. It's sort of like, if they're beautiful and blonde, she can't act, and we should know better by now. I've heard it from people, 'What are you doing, doing a picture with Vin Diesel?' They're not giving him the credit he deserves. Sometimes, I just say, 'Wait till you see him in the picture.

there is a lot of racial prejudice in northwest Ohio, in this area.

Even though progress has been made, there's more to do, ... There are still people in our society who hurt. There's still prejudice holding people back. There's still a school system that doesn't elevate every child so they can learn. There's still a need for us to hear the words of Martin Luther King to make sure the hope of America extends its reach into every neighborhood across this land.

I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

I've been in many unpopular cases where there's been high community prejudice against the defendants, but here everybody has been hurt, and everybody is angry,

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant recognizes our commitment, while at the same time it illustrates the commitment of the Kellogg Foundation, to challenging prejudice -- whether conscious or unconscious. Our goal at the Journalism School is to set a new, higher standard for education regarding the coverage of race and ethnicity. We endeavor to be leaders in the field.

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.

Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts.

Prejudice against certain groups can come from the home. They learn by hearing their parents. If parents make fun or are mean to those who are different, that is how children learn their parent's value system.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence

Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice in Britain today,

Now, if Ali was still going around saying those things, I don't think he would be as beloved as he is today. By the same token, this country as a whole has become much more understanding of the terrible prejudice and bigotry that existed and has come to recognize the underlying validity of Ali's demand for racial justice and equality.

The more children learn about being different, the more prejudice will be eliminated.

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

As far as prejudice, I think Dr. Winston looks like a boob and someone who is not very candid.

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

A literature has developed on whether discrimination in the marketplace due to prejudice disappears in the long run. Whether employers who do not want to discriminate will eventually compete away all discriminating employers depends not only on the distribution of tastes for discrimination among potential employers, but critically also on the nature of firm production functions.

This is an example of the possible outcome of extreme prejudice and racism.

This documentary is about tapping into a celebration of gay people and prejudice against gay families that is inherent in large parts of America. If anyone's going to bring this into someone's living room, it's Rosie. She is part of America's family.

This evidence is so weak and so fraught with danger to not only confuse the jury but also prejudice the defendant.

They happened to be black and overcame racial prejudice in 1966. They did a good job of showing that.

They don't care what you believe in IF you can make the money. There's no prejudice against any certain religion here.

This motion sought to add things to our complaint in compliance with the Clean Air Act, which calls for 60 days notice, The granting of Alexandria's request to file an Amended Compliant will not disrupt this proceeding or unduly delay or prejudice the adjudication of the rights of the parties.

As soon as a document becomes public, the lawyer is not contributing further to the possibility of prejudice at this point. Under the rules you can certainly talk about things that are a matter of public record. ? So once that's done, the lawyer can talk about it, and the other side can try to explain it.

It's not supposed to prejudice a judge, but judges are only human,

It's hard to tell, but that kind of aura or sense of prejudice is going to follow the doctor, not really the center. And I'm not saying he's guilty or innocent. Our focus is to take care of the low-income and uninsured people there.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.

I wander if there really is a brave man with a really good imagination? If hypocrisy was destructive to the environment the world would have ended a long, long time ago.

The T-shirt perpetuates prejudice and discrimination against people with mental illnesses through the intimation of threats flowing from auditory hallucinations. They reinforce an unfair perception of violence.

It's not because we want to discriminate against any race. We're not prejudice up here. The decision by the City Council was that new streets be named after past presidents and possibly after the people that you talked about. We do not want to name existing streets because we are worried about what the cost would be to our neighbors who live on that street.

A ruling like this will cause prejudice in people who have never been prejudiced before.

I'm 61-years old. I suffered prejudice in this town for his crimes all my life, and I'm struggling to put food on the table. If he passed away right now, we're unprepared.

In a way, pretty faces are rewarding. They make us more likely to think good thoughts. There are some underlying processes going on in the brain that prejudice us to respond to attractive people better even if we are not aware of it.

If there's any prejudice regarding Frau Merkel in Washington, it's positive prejudice. Expectations are so high she may not be able to meet all of them.

If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

In our shock and grief one thing must remain clear, hate and prejudice are not American values. The public outrage in Laramie and all across America today echoes what we heard at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes last year -- there is something we can do about this, Congress needs to pass our tough Hate Crimes Legislation. It can do so even before it adjourns and it should do so.

Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the

IP therapy is not a new treatment approach, but it has not been widely accepted as the gold standard for women with ovarian cancer. There has been a prejudice against IP therapy in ovarian cancer because it's an old idea, it requires skill and experience for the surgery and for the chemotherapy, and it's more complicated than IV chemotherapy. But now we have firm data showing that we should use a combination of IP and IV chemotherapy in most women with advanced ovarian cancer who have had successful surgery to remove the bulk of their tumor.

Investigators would want to protect the future of the investigations. I mean, you never know how much disclosure would actually prejudice tracking down other criminals, or further investigations.

If you took Lydia out of 'Pride and Prejudice' and put her into today, she'd be one of the popular girls,

If you were black, you experienced (prejudice). It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it.

If there was a race card played, it was played out in the north woods. There is no question that race and racial prejudice played a role in the events.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.

I've borne these two kids into a particularly strange circumstance. They are going to have to fend off a lot and protect themselves from a lot of projections and prejudice about who they are, coming from the family that they come from.

Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations.