It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated … - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision. . . That is the sort of time we live in now. We. . . live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our uncertain feet.

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