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Perspective Quotes
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster"
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David Hume
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them"
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David Hume
"There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion"
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Edgar Allan Poe
"I drink to make other people more interesting"
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Ernest Hemingway
"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"To have opinions is to sell the essence of today for the essence of tomorrow."
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Fernando Pessoa
"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it"
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Travel makes one modest You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world"
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Gustave Flaubert
"There is no truth Only perception"
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Gustave Flaubert
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
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Harper Lee
"Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity"
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Ian McEwan
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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James Madison
"Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves"
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Jawaharlal Nehru
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."
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John Stuart Mill
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes"
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Marcel Proust
"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were"
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Marcel Proust
"I am among those who think that science has great beauty."
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Marie Curie
"On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom"
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Michel de Montaigne
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