"I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much of the evil in the world. Others, less close to her, showed no such scruples, which upset me, as I very much wanted her, as I want all children, to make up her own mind freely when she became old enough to do so. I would encourage her to think, without telling her what to think."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Evil Quotes

“That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.”

Source : John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”
“Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.”
“What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.”
“Just keep focusing on the work that you're doing. Focus on what's in front of you today. And don't read the papers, just go campaign. Just do your thing. Talk to people directly”
“The constitution has put women in a position where no one will protect them from religious cliques. If a woman is the third or the fourth wife and she has no rights inside her home and, on top of that, there is domestic abuse in her house, she is doomed. Under Islamic Sharia law a woman must accept beatings from her husband. Under Islamic Sharia, she must not revolt because she is the third or fourth wife.”
“Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?”
“Thank you Mama for the nine months you carried me through/â€¦No one knows the pressure you bear a just only you.”
“I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.”

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