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

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Perspective

The enemy of your enemy is your friend. – Proverb

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Perspective

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? – John Churton Collins, Aphorisms in the English Review, 1914

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Perspective

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. – Abe Lemons

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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. Its not very funny, but its sincere. My commitment is to sincerity. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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funny

We have domesticated Gods transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. – Karen Armstrong

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Change

The coolest part about seeing a girl wear something comfortable is the smile that you can just feel coming through from inside her. – Kellan Lutz

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smile

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. – Author Unknown

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Hang in There