"Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart."
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"It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere."
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"To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others."
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"Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it."
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"Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation."
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"Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind."
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"Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself."
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"I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence."
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"The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception."
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"We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate."
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"My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like “Spy Kids.”"
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"There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel."
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"It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another."
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"What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it."
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"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."
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"Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say"
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"Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging."
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"American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster."
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"The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation."
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"A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman."
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