Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does. - Denis Diderot

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A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.

Denis Diderot

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

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