"There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt."

Perception, Contempt, Familiarity, Mystery

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"There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt."

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"Even if everybody is looking at the same light bulb, the unique composition of an individual will dictate how they interpret and see things. Some people will only see things with their left eye (mind/moon), while others will use only their right (heart/sun). Some people are completely void of light and repel it immediately. For instance, a beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different than the insects? Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Most of us are in-between. There are moths that explore the day and butterflies that play at night. Polarity is an integral part of nature - human or not human."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Perception, Humanity, Nature, Duality

"Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

Perception, Imagination, Observation, Stillness

"For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter."

Archibald Marwizi, Zimbabwean Author

Perception, Appearance, Presentation, Substance, Opportunity

"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Perception, Sight, Blindness, World

"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Perception, Imagination, Reality, Surprise, Life

"I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Perception, World, Wonder, Mind

"Just because they annoy you doesn't mean they're wrong!"

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Perception, Truth, Judgment, Opinion

"Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Perception, Emotion, Belief, Influence

"But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters."

Veronica Roth, American Author

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"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time."

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"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"

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"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."

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"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."

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"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

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"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."

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"A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends."

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"Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back."

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"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro."

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