"And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go."
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"Take a good look at yourself before you criticise another, for what you see wrong in them, will also be a lesson for you."
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"The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware."
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"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back."
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"It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't."
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"One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant."
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"The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it out, see what looks correct, what looks wrong, look at other material which wasn't discussed, figure out what the truth really is. That's what you've got a brain for."
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"The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies."
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"The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point."
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"Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy."
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"You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’ if you follow me. It is more of a search for something, in which, being blindfolded, you develop the tactile, the olfactory, the auditory senses —and thus see for the first time."
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"Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle."
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"Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger."
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"In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages."
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"And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children."
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"Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!"
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"Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it."
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"This is about Ku’Sox, isn’t it,” I said, more of a statement than a question. He made a sighing groan, and I knew it was. “Then you’ve met,” he said, his thoughts clearly on the day-walking demon. “Funny, you don’t look dead.” His hand touched my chin, shifting it so he could see where I’d been pixed, the blisters itchy and red. “I’m surprised you survived the little designer dump. I nearly didn’t."
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"A friend is like a good bra: hard to find, comfortable, supportive, always lifts you up, makes you look better, never lets you down or leaves you hanging, and always close to your heart."
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"I don't need to improve the look of my own if I don't even know what it looks like."
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