Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.

我们的许多偏见像是颠倒的金字塔，它们来自琐碎、不重要的小事，但是往上延伸扩大直到充斥于我们的内心。

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It argued that attaching the tiny tracking device to a car's undercarriage was too trivial a violation of property rights to matter, and that no one who drove in public streets could expect his movements to go unmonitored.

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