Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. - Josh Billings - Quotesmemo.com

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So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic and I was like wow, this is so disorienting, I have to reboot. In retrospect, I can see that it's really powerful that somebody [Snowden] so smart, so young, and with so much to lose risked so much.

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Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

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So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic and I was like wow, this is so disorienting, I have to reboot. In retrospect, I can see that it's really powerful that somebody [Snowden] so smart, so young, and with so much to lose risked so much.

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