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Letter "D" » discrimination
«Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Literature
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blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, discrimination, mellow, mellows, perception, Personal Best, quicken, quickening, quickens, reader, sharpen, The Quickening
«Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.»
Author: Thurgood Marshall
(Jurist, Lawyer)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
discrimination, Eliminating, jury, peremptory, racial, racial discrimination
«Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| About:
Discrimination
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discrimination, genocide, improbably, social class, social classes
«All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.»
Author: Earl Warren
(Judge, Politician)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
discrimination, Federal, in public, local, permitting, provisions, public education, requiring
«First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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discrimination
«By controlling the senses kill this devil [of material desire] that destroys knowledge and discrimination.»
«From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant»
Author: Dalai Lama
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Discrimination
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absolute truth, and others, delusion, Delusions, discrimination, unpleasant, various, viewpoint, viewpoints
«Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
discrimination, dominating, gnaws, hellhound, inferiority, moment of truth, Negroes, remind, waking
«Be Silent yourself, that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting, talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation, wherever you happen to be. The less you talk, the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity, there will be increase in your power of discrimination too. Consequently, you will give up individual discrimination . Because of this, you will begin to consider the good of the world at large rather than your own individual welfare. You must cultivate such broad feelings from this young age itself.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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«As long as you have attachment to the body and attachment to objects, fear and suffering will be with you. Therefore, Krishna told Arjuna to develop his discrimination and rid himself of body consciousness. He told him that once he was free of body consciousness he would be able to develop integral vision. Embodiments of Love, Mankind today has three types of vision. The first is body oriented vision, which is totally superficial. When you have this kind of vision you see only the external appearance of others, such as the clothes and the ornaments they wear, their facial features, their body characteristics, their peculiarities of speech, etc. This type of vision is oriented only towards the phenomenal world. The second kind of vision is insightful vision.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
Arjuna, discrimination, embodiments, etc., etc, facial, first appearance, insightful, Krishna, orient, oriented, ornaments, peculiarities, peculiarity, phenomenal
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