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What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa. -- Audrey Niffenegger
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa. -- Richard Powers
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. -- Stanislav Grof
I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves. -- Seymour Hersh
If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever. -- Jean-Martin Charcot
The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin. -- David Grinspoon
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature. -- Theodore Dalrymple

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