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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of ones senses! H

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of ones senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. – Norman Douglas

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. – Norman Douglas

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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. – Norman Douglas

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respect
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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. – Norman Douglas

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Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it. – Katharine Brush

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The reality of life is that your perceptions — right or wrong — influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place. – Roger Birkman

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The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. . . The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is the hyperreal – Jean Baudrillard

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Okay, who put a “stop payment” on my reality check? – Author Unknown

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