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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
"We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful."
"The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind."
"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."
"People see what they expect to see."
"The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish."
"I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed."
"Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully."
"When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!"
"It is always easier to find fault and criticize than it is to find beauty and appreciation."
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"Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. There are moments when his cogitations are relatively more respectable than usual, but even at their climaxes they never reach anything properly describable as the level of serious thought. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. That is to say, they never think anything that has not been thought before and by thousands."
"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem-neat, plausible, and wrong."
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
"Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly licking its chops."
"Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest."
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