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Laura’s Quotes

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind

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“the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection: All 7 Books Plus Bonus Book: Boxen

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“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett , The Secret Garden

tags: magic

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“It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
― Warsan Shire

tags: beautiful, existence, feminism, self-esteem

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“I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

tags: abortion, feminism, life

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