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    We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

by Louis Pasteur Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

by David Fasold Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.

by Jean Paul Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

by Earl Camden Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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The cause of freedom is the cause of God.

The cause of freedom is the cause of God.

by Samuel Bowles Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

by William Cowper Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that read more

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

by Sir Edwin Arnold Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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