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    Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

by Irving Batcheller Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely read more

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

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Great minds think alike.

Great minds think alike.

by Anonymous Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

by Abraham Maslow Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find read more

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

by Walter Lippmann Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

by Hume Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.

Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.

by John Barbour Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

by Peter A. Cohen Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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