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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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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. – Ruth Benedict

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However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is –in other words, not a thing, but a think. – Penelope Fitzgerald

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The dung beetle, seeing its child on the wall, thinks it sees a pearl on a thread. – Arabic Proverb

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You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. – M. Shawn Cole

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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. – Martha Gellhorn

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