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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 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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Learning
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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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In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people. – Brooks Atkinson

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Perspective

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. – Carl Jung

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Perspective

The answer to poverty is not charity, the solution to abortion is not laws, the key to saving the environment is not recycling. As Thoreau so wisely noted, we must strike at the root, not hack at the branches. – Terri Guillemets, “Comfort is not always the best medicine,” 1995

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Perspective

How many merits one sees in those one likes! how many faults in those one dislikes! Yet people fancy they see with their eyes. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Perspective

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For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image. – George Whitefield

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Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. – King Hussein I

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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I hated every minute of training, but I said, Dont quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. – Muhammad Ali

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Training