"Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves."

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Adrienne Rich

#Assumption Quotes

“I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road”
“The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).”
“Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.”
“You are your greatest investment. The more you store in that mind of yours, the more you enrich your experience, the more people you meet, the more books you read, and the more places you visit, the greater is that investment in all that you are. Everything that you add to your peace of mind, and to your outlook upon life, is added capital that no one but yourself can dissipate.”
“What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and an ability to convince them that what they are being taught is deadly serious”
“We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.”
“Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.”

Source : Kate Klise, M. Sarah Klise (2011). “Till Death Do Us Bark”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.”

Source : Alexandra Stoddard (1990). “Daring to be Yourself”, Doubleday Books

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