"You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject."

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"You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject."

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"It's both a blessing and a curse to see a woman's beauty!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

Barack Obama, American President

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"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."

David Levithan, American Author

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"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Being rich or famous does not equate an effective life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267)."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"Senses disabled by fear."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"We see the world as we are."

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"Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion."

Religion, Opinion, Understanding

"Anticipate charity by preventing poverty."

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"Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything."

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"Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power."

Power, Greatness, Existence, Now

"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."

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"You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination."

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"To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible."

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"It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems."

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"Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen."

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"You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject."

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