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• One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Art, Substance, Growing

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• Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies, the fantastic nature of which we don't perceive. We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as a fantasy when it is not our own.

  Susan Sontag

  Everyday, Able, May

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

  George Crabbe

  Grieving, Men, Satire

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.127

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• Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.

  Robert Motherwell

  Dream, Order, Perception

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• Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.

  Pope John Paul II

  Order, Humanity, Actors

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• There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms, and would not tolerate such a loss if they could perceive it. But the erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all-out frontal assault but rather as a gradual, noxious creeping, cloaked in secrecy, and glossed over by reassurances of greater security.

  Robert Byrd

  Loss, Erosion, People

  "Life in the Shadows of the Empire" by Eamon Martin, www.counterpunch.org. March 18, 2006.

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• Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problemfor society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solvedby the establishment of a new overall adjustment.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Practice, Society, Use

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Part I. The Value of Freedom, Chap. 2 : The Creative Power of a Free Civilization, 1960.

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• Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible.

  Leo Baeck

  Soul, Abiding, Invisible

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• It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back...

  Danny Elfman

  Running, Jobs, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Reality, Risk, Perception

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• The perception of bias isn't there, that's what I told Ken Tomlinson, ... The majority of Americans do not perceive a bias.

  Pat Mitchell

  Perception, Majority, Bias

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• Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

  Dean Mitchell

  Art, Perception, Paint

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• So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the will of God must appear to it as a multiplicity of commandments. In actual fact, it is one and indivisible; God wants nothing else except love because He Himself is love.

  Emil Brunner

  Love Is, Law, Long

  Emil Brunner (2002). “The Letter to the Romans”, p.111, James Clarke & Co.

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• We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive us in terms of controlling attention, exploiting the assumptions we make when we do and don't notice a change in our environment. There is an enormous amount of really detailed instruction on how to perform magic. People are always blown away by how detailed a description you'll have.

  Richard Wiseman

  People, Magic, Attention

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• Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.

  Julian Simon

  Moving, Past, Hands

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• Visible nature is but a distorted reflection of a more perfect world and the creative individual viewing her is inspired to perceive within and behind her many garments, that which is timeless and entirely beautiful.

  Lawren Harris

  Beautiful, Nature, Reflection

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• I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

  Saint Patrick

  Character, Angel, Soul

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• To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.

  St. Jerome

  Decision, Form, Categories

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• One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, Ordinary, World

  Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini (1993). “Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people!

  Carl Rogers

  Real, People, Different

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Christ, Wells

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• This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
  For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill,
  Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
  And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.

  Sir John Davies

  Skills, Knowing, Ears

  Sir John Davies (1759). “The Original, Nature and Immortality of the Soul, a Poem. With an Introduction Concerning Human Knowledge ... The Fourth Edition, Corrected. With an Account of the Author's Life and Writings”, p.82

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• In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Art, Maturity, Perfect

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• The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Long, Fool, Disappear

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• If God made no response except to perfect faith, who could hope for help? But God has regard for beginnings, and His eye perceives greatness in the germ. The hand of the woman in the crowd trembled as it was stretched toward Jesus, and the faith back of it was superstitiously reverent, trusting in the virtue of the robe, rather than in the One who wore it; yet the genuineness of that faith; feeble though it was, triumphed in God's loving sight. Real trust is real power, though the heart and hand be feeble.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Jesus, Real, Eye

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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