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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edit

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. – Ruth Benedict

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Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak. – Anon.

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Perception

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro narrow chinks of his cavern. – William Blake

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Perception

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Perception

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swans egg. – Hans Christian Andersen

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Perception

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I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more. – Arthur Daley

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