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Alison

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Alison’s Quotes

“Keeping secrets from young ears only plants seeds in between them,”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

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“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: change, innovation, willful-ignorance

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“It’s so easy to know so much, he would tell us, gesturing around the library. It’s all right there, and it’s free.”
― Scott Carson, Lost Man's Lane

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“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

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“There are two kinds of women: those who spend a lifetime trying not to turn into their mothers, and those who literally seem to want nothing more. I often find both varieties get the complete opposite of what they hoped for – one set become carbon copies of the women they didn’t want to be, while the others never live up to their own expectations of who they think they should have become”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

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