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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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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summers day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. – John Lubbock

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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. – Mexican Proverb

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Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. – Saint Francis de Sales

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There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. – Tom Stoppard

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The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. – Eliot Spitzer

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