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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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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. – John Lubbock

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Nature
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. – John Lubbock

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Education
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window — that is at once interesting. – Billy Wilder

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root… – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600

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A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse below and dreams of home. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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History is a vast early warning system. – Norman Cousins

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History

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. – John Steinbeck

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Basically, Im a romantic. – Pia Zadora

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Romantic

Im happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was – but its almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with Angels, and it still generates income for me, but its not enough for me to live on and have health insurance. – Tony Kushner

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Health