Biasing Quotes & Sayings

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves. — Megan Smith

Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road to 'Demon Pass.' — Peggy Noonan

I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals, but I wasn't a vegetarian long before I realized there's something to that. I don't think I would have worked for the past five years probably were it not for my vegetarian diet. — Bob Barker

Love may claim our hearts but lust will always claim our bodies. It is the traitor that lurks in every soul. — Anthony Ryan

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism. — Rabih Alameddine

Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If
we step on it, we suffer immediately.
Why do we suffer? Because we
stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us. — Ajahn Chah

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again. — Nicholas Sparks

I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research. You and I know there has been censorship of the material published. Equally important, the location of the economists in the Federal Reserve has had a significant influence on the kind of research they do, biasing that research toward noncontroversial technical papers on method as opposed to substantive papers on policy and results — Milton Friedman

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Darling," she said and caught his face between her hands, making him meet her eyes. He didn't want to. He didn't like the look in her eyes - a grim determination. "I love you," she whispered and his soul soared until she uttered her next words. "But I must leave you." "No." He clutched at her hips as if he were a child of three refusing to give up his toy sword. "No." "Yes," she replied. — Elizabeth Hoyt

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect. — Anne Bronte

I'd never realized how quiet the world could be without people in it. — Jamie McGuire

Carl waited while I knocked, and when the door opened I came within an ace of slipping a couple of pound coins into his gloved hand and asking him to book me a table at L'Epicure. Luckily, he stopped me by saluting violently, then turned on his heel and set off back down the corridor at a hundred and ten paces to the minute. — Hugh Laurie

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. — Charles Kingsley

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it. — Trevor Moore

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist. — Gary Shteyngart

I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up. — Michael Hudson

The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace. — Marvin Ammori