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  • Richard Whately In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Cass Sunstein In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don't have to be a Jedi to manipulate people's attention.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Carla Bruni In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
    Carla Bruni
    Italian-French singer-songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Ben Jonson In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
    Memoirs of Jonson And Every Man in His Humour: The Works of Ben Jonson
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Betsey Johnson In the 60's there was a look. In the 70's there was a look, and in the 80's. Now, it's a free-for-all.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Ellen DeGeneres In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
    Ellen DeGeneres
    American comedian, actress, writer, and producer (1958 - )
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  • Beau Willimon In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Ben van Berkel In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • Walt Whitman In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Edmund Burke In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Alan Dundes In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Cassandra Clare In the same way that so many people read 'Harry Potter' and went to see 'Harry Potter,' just because a movie is about a kid, doesn't mean it's for kids, and just because a movie is about a girl, doesn't mean it's for girls.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Brooke Burke In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Brendan Dooling In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you're going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you're doing the part. So you'll see a lot of flailing arms, but a very still face.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Virginia Woolf Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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