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• One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.

  Ugo Mochi

  Knowledge, Trying, Silhouettes

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• We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Remember, Illusion

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• Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.

  George Will

  Sex, Attitude, Reality

  George F. Will (1995). “The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994”, Penguin Group USA

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• Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water
  high clouds
  to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched,
  a messenger of blessed rain,
  but this was as dry as hell must be.
  My distraught perception refused
  to believe it, because of the insane
  suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit,
  and how casually it came
  to murder my child.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Children, Rain, Believe

  "The First Long Range Artillery Fire On Leningrad". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1993.

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• If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply as a play upon words. Its full significance is revealed only when we approach it in a different manner, making our minds available to the new processes of inner perception which it suggests.

  Robert Linssen

  Attitude, Average, Play

  Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

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• Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.

  B. W. Powe

  Communication, Self, Ebb And Flow

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.

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• A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different

  Steven Biko

  Community, Different, Divides

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• I wanted to reinvent horror comics. I felt like it was my mission to open people's eyes to the fact that horror comics could be so much more than the popular perception of them.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Eye, People, Facts

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.

  Bill Crawford

  Past, Keys, Pie

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• Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Light, Perfect

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• The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don't rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it individually. Go to a teacher of Zen to learn how to do that, not to get answers for individual life situations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Strong, Independent

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• Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.

  Edward Everett

  Truth, Philosophy, Discovery

  Edward Everett (1840). “Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection from His Orations and Other Discourses”, p.228

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• Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Reality

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• In mysticism we deal with dreaming and the fields of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Fields, Deals

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• I came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Perfect

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• There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Comedian, Eras, Serious

  "Jim Gaffigan talks Domino's, Law & Order, and having the gall to accept serious acting roles". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. January 28, 2010.

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• The entertainment business is such a strange, crazy perception business that you're either given way too much respect, like people saying, "You should be the head of the sitcom!" Or you're given no respect, where they're like, "You should audition to be the garbage man that lives four houses down."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Crazy, Men, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. November 11, 2008.

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• ...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Dark, Common Sense

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.506, 谷月社

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• poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

  Patricia Hampl

  Voice, Poetry, Accurate

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• Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Lying, Boredom, Enough

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment.
  [Lat., Quem dii diligunt,
  Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]

  Plautus

  Death, God Love, Judgment

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• Perception is made up of bands.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Band, Made

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• Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there.

  Jennifer James

  Hurt, Names, People

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• No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Doe, Looks

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction is due to our want of perception, since our knowledge of laws and causes is so small compared to their total sum.

  Margaret Benson

  Opportunity, Discovery, Law

  Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faith”

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