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“I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.”

Thinking Looks Kind Dark Perception Universal Like Me Mysterious

Author:Steven Bauer

“... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.”

Years Two Truth Fiction Quality Novel Perception Hundred Universal Fifty Truth Of Life Imaginative Truthfulness

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.”

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull”

Would Be Beautiful Stars Wonderful Sky Fine Perception Universal Dull Faculty Extensions Platonic

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.”

Mean Spirit Individual Identity Perception Universal Liberation

Author:Laozi

“No waving of enchanted wands but heightened perception. No magic objects, but a transformed and enhanced reality. No spells or chants, but the raw power of the human will to enact supernatural change upon the universal fabric. This is the kind of "magic" that fills Lords of Rainbow - elemental, organic, humanistic - an extension of reality.”

Humans Kind Reality Lord Magic Objects Perception Universal Spells Transformed Rainbow Fabric Extensions Enchanted Wands Elementals Humanistic Human Will

Author:Vera Nazarian

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

Author:William Shakespeare

“The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.”

Country Purpose Interest Groups Perception Unique Flow Universal Pursue Legitimacy Small Groups Unesco Bihar

Book:Towards a new world: defining moments

Source: Towards a new world: defining moments