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    We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

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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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If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

by David Fasold Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.

Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.

by Lord Thomas Dewar Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. read more

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.

by R. L. Gregory Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The read more

A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

by Elias Canetti Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

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Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: read more

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.

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The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a read more

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.

by Frank M. Garafola Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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