John Lubbock's Quote - What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – John Lubbock

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What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – John Lubbock

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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. – John Lubbock

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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. – John Lubbock

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. – John Lubbock

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Astronomers always work in the past; because light takes time to move from one place to another, they see things as they were, not as they are. – Neale E. Howard, The Telescope Handbook and Star Atlas, 1967

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When youre in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. Thats the consolation of philosophy. – David Cronenberg

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Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. – George Bernard Shaw

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A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence. – Thomas Traherne

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Fear is excitement without the breath. – Fritz Perls

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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I – Muhammad Ali

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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. – Iris Murdoch

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Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation? – Rosalind Russell

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