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To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there read more
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.
