"it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him."

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Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.337, Broadview Press

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#Imbibing Quotes #Prejudice Quotes #Absurd Quotes

“You cannot be a secret and be profitable.”
“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
“So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.”
“No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets.”
“I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.”
“Submit to love without thinking”
“We go wherever God leads whenever God moves us...because we love His glory more than we love our lives.”
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”

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