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    Malcolm Gladwell
    “..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell
    tags: drawing-conclusions, instinct, judgment, stereotype
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    E.M. Forster
    “He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
    tags: clergyman, humor, optimism, stereotype
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    Rinker Buck
    “All the heroes had crew cuts, platinum-blond wives and drove Corvettes. The media was devoted to this cult of innocence.”
    ― Rinker Buck, Flight of Passage: A Memoir
    tags: image, stereotype
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “Why does everyone always claim women are illogical when men are a hundred times more so? First they want something, then they don't, then they make irrational decisions based on secrets they won’t explain and no one is supposed to question them because a man’s word is final.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas , Scandal in Spring
    tags: double-standards, feminism, stereotype, stereotyped-prejudices, women
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    Constance Hale
    “In French printer's jargon, cliche (which mimicked the sound of a mold striking molten metal) was a synonym for stereotype, which in turn evolved from the Greek for "solid impression." A stereotype was a printing plate that duplicated typography and that was used by the printer in lieu of the original.
    So a cliche is a word or phrase used over and over again in lieu of the original.”
    ― Constance Hale, Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
    tags: cliche, on-writing, originality, printing, printing-press, stereotype, word-origins, writing
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    “People are choosing to use gender wars to score points. Joking or not, what they are committing Is a hate crime or hate speech. Most of our Issues and problems are not resolved in life because they were given or tagged to a specific gender. A blame game took place. Meanwhile, they are human errors, not men or women. If something Is good or bad, we choose which gender to allocate It to. By doing so, we are creating a stereotype. We are deflating from the real Issue by Isolating ourselves so that we don’t feel responsibility and accountability to act On the problem we are part of.”
    ― De philosopher DJ Kyos
    tags: choose-or-choices, gender-wars, hate-speech-or-hate-crime, human-behavior-quotes, philosophy, quotes, social-media-or-internet, society-quote, stereotype
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    J.M. Coetzee
    “Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and drove it out, and the city was cleansed. It worked because everyone knew how to read the ritual, including the gods. Then the gods died, and all of a sudden you had to cleanse the city without divine help. Real actions were demanded instead of symbolism. The censor was born, in the Roman sense. Watchfulness became the watchword: the watchfulness of all over all. Purgation was replaced by the purge.”
    ― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
    tags: cleansing, godlessness, punishment, scapegoating
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    Joanne Harris
    “As she grew older, Maddy discovered that she had disappointed almost everyone. An awkward girl with a sullen mouth, a curtain of hair, and a tendency to slouch, she had neither Mae's sweet nature nor sweet face. Her eyes were rather beautiful, but few people ever noticed this, and it was widely believed Maddy was ugly, a troublemaker, too clever for her own good, too stubborn - or too slack - to change.
    Of course, folk agreed that it was not her fault she was so brown or her sister so pretty, but a smile costs nothing, as the saying goes, and if only the girl had made an effort once in a while, or even showed a little gratitude for all the help and free advice, then maybe she would have settled down.”
    ― Joanne Harris, Runemarks
    tags: appearances, hypocrisy, labeling, prejudice, scapegoating, superiority
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    Terry Pratchett
    “All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

    REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

    "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

    YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

    "So we can believe the big ones?"

    YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

    "They're not the same at all!"

    YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

    "Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

    MY POINT EXACTLY.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: belief, justice, lies, mercy, truth
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
    ― Ernesto Che Guevara
    tags: justice, social-justice
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: communication, fear
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    Franz Kafka
    “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life
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    “Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong."

    However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin [= adultery; extramarital sex], the woman is not to blame nor is the beauty given her by God to be disparaged: rather, you are to blame for not keeping your heart more clear of wicked thoughts. ... If you feel yourself tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous heart.”
    ― Anonymous, Dives and Pauper
    tags: adultery, beauty, clichés, double-standards, drunkenness, gender, greed, hypocrisy, immorality, lust, men, misogyny, sexuality, social-norms, stereotypes, temptation, wine, women
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    Israelmore Ayivor
    “7 things negative people will do to you. They will...
    1. Demean your value;
    2. Destroy your image
    3. Drive you crazily!
    4. Dispose your dreams!
    5. Discredit your imagination!
    6. Deframe your abilities and
    7. Disbelieve your opinions!

    Stay away from negative people!”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor
    tags: 7-habits-of-negative-people, abilities, ability, bad, bad-friends, bad-people, companions, crazily, crazy, deframe, demean, destroy, disbelieve, discredit, dispose, disvalue, drive, food-for-thought, friends, friendship, good-friends, ideas, image, imaginations, israelmore-ayivor, negative, negative-people, negativity, opinions, people, potentials, power, stay-away, thought, toxic-people, value
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