"Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth."
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"We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure."
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"I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions"
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"One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them."
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"You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you."
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"I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful."
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"Perception is a powerful tool."
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"We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world."
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"New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception."
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"Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve"
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"There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion."
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"The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war."
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"The dice cannot read their own spots."
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"Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception."
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"You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception."
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"In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body."
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"It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd."
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"Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves."
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"No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge."
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"I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it."
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