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“The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.”

Men Littles Has Beens Said Facts Eye Social Achievement Blind Relate Aspiration Great Men

Author:James Loeb

“The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!”

People Want Persons Has Beens Eye Courses Space Views Taken Sick Exciting Cameras Tired Photograph Hearing Mechanism Astronaut

Author:Burt Rutan

“The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.”

Men Looks Persons Has Beens Facts Eye Black Divorce Divorced Patches Dashing

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious it is. It is no coincidence that our awakening to the special nature of our world and to its uniquely balanced environment and its limitations coincided with our first glimpse of earth from outer space, through the eyes of astronauts, television cameras and photographic equipment.”

“Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets p... Judith Regan.”

People Trying Years Has Beens Sometimes Eye Culture Watches Loud Editors Vulgar Amusement Amused Duplicate Intervening Brash Regan

Author:Judith Regan

“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.”

“To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree”

Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

“I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.”

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Author:Augustus William Hare

“People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going to end, and it's going to end soon,.”

People Children Has Beens Ends Eye Age Materials Including Clever Advertising Exposed Catching Tobacco Eye Catching

Author:Frank Dobson

“The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.”

Men May Long Has Beens Eye Suffering Generations Tears Ambition Wipe Our Generation Greatest Man

Book:Sept. 1964-May 1949

Source: Sept. 1964-May 1949

“When I'm in the second attention, when I stop looking through eyes that have been formed for me by others, I see something else. I see power.”

Has Beens Eye Attention Seeing Through The Eyes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.”

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Author:Kamasi Washington

“Since Martin Luther closed his eyes, no such son of our people has appeared again. It has been decided that we shall be the first to witness his reappearance.... I think the time is past when one may not say the names of Hitler and Luther in the same breath. They belong together; they are of the same old stamp.”

People Thinking Firsts May Has Beens Eye Together Past Names Son Decided Breaths Witness His Eyes Stamps Luther

Author:Bernhard Rust

“You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people, living, events present themselves to you with the immediacy of players in some barbarous and splendid drama that it seems we are part of. You have been given new eyes.”

People Has Beens Moments Seems Eye Given Taken Our Lives Player Events Drama Remarkable Over You Splendid Fever Immediacy New Eyes Improbability

Author:Doris Lessing

“By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.”

People Ifs Persons Has Beens War Ends Eye Hair Picks Blue Valuable Blue Eyes Sixth Sense Gestapo

Author:Diet Eman