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I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs. ↗

— Juan Cole

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I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

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The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. ↗

— Erik Larson

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As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

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I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

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