"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking."

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"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking."

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W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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Georg Buchner, German Dramatist

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"A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes."

Alicia Keys, American Musician

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Corbin Bleu, American Actor

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"I like to browse in Cartier, Chanel and Gucci and if something special grabs my eye I splash out."

Lisa Snowdon, English Model

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"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."

Margaret Fairless Barber, British Writer

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"Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take."

Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer

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"Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future."

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"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."

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"The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community."

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"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers."

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"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."

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"The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists."

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"I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation."

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"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers."

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"Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make."

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"I haven't strength of mind not to need a career."

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