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“The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.”

Needs States Differences Party Movement Limits Tea Perceive Recognizing Tea Party Tea Party Movement

Author:Mike Lee

“"Perceive" is the word that became in the '72 campaign what "charisma" was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. "Perceive" is the new key word. When you say perceive you imply the difference between what the candidate is and the way the public or the voters see him.”

Way Differences Keys Campaigns Perceive Candidates Voters 1960s Charisma

Book:Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

“The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.”

Thinking Men Differences Class Records Expression Observation Perceive Latter Worthwhile Nevertheless Facility Lower Class

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur either in them or in our relationship to them. Objects and circumstances which remain absolutely constant relative to the observer, unchanged either by his own movement or by external events, are in general difficult and perhaps always impossible to perceive. What we perceive easily is difference and change and difference is a relationship.”

Firsts Difficult Differences Impossible Events Movement Objects Circumstances Constant Statements Data Perceive Relative Our Relationship Observers Initials Sensory Derivatives

Book:Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry

Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry

“We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.”

Differences Failing Appreciate Superiors Perceive Merit Conception Inferiors Superiority

Author:James F. Cooper

“The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments”

Humans Different Earth Differences Results Environment Groups Perceive Isolation Adaptation Mutation Inbreeding

Book:Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

Source: Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

“The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.”

“What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to seebut not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern--a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.”

Made Matter Today Differences Consciousness Essentials Computer Perception Capacity Intelligent Patterns Perceive What Matters Incapable Spontaneous

Book:Visual Thinking

Source: Visual Thinking

“Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.”

People Self Differences Politician Asking Perceive Serving Reporters Narcissistic Asking Questions Self Serving

Author:Michael Crichton