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"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

"All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value."

"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour."

"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."

"Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good."

"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."

"Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another."

"Changing your perception will alter your interpretations and therefore, your reality. If you feel like you're hitting a wall because you simply don't understand something, or another person has a different approach, keep your mind open and willing to reinterpret it with fresh eyes, more information, a change in position, or a new perspective."

"You perception of a person, place, or thing may not be accurate. Just because it looks good does not mean it is good and vice versa. Always be aware of your surroundings. Pay attention to the people, places, and things around you. Don't allow your misperception to put you in an uncomfortable situation."

"We don't need eyes to judge people's beauty, but unfortunately we judge them as we see."
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."


"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."


"The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose."


"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."


"You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue."


"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."
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