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"That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect."
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"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."
"What you need and what you want aren't the same things."
"It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light."
"There's none so blind as they that won't see."
"Look around and you will see what others are not seeing."
"It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?"
"Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!"
"Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?"
"When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice."
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"She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it."
"And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way."
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"Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution. Keep these two squatting men apart; make them hate, fear, suspect each other. Here is the anlage of the thing you fear. This is the zygote. For here 'I lost my land' is changed; a cell is split and from its splitting grows the thing you hate--'We lost *our* land."
"There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outward after the earliest risen star."
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