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“Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.”
― Colin Powell

tags: cars, driving, focus, perception, strategy

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“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . ”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: art, emotion, experience, illusion, perception

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“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

tags: beauty, beholder, evil, god, perception, religion, religious-meaning

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“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: attitude, injury, perception

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“A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?
I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.”
― Terry Pratchett

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