• The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator 1889-1974
  

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1. representative
2. supports
3. sample
4. defies
5. whole
6. class

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The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. by : Walter Lippmann

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