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    After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

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Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

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Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on read more

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

by Richard Cecil Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.

by Marcel Proust Found in: Perception Quotes,
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The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

by Aleister Crowley Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to read more

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

by Frank Hague Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope read more

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.

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