"The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain."

-- Richard Gregory

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“Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are programmed into your cordless phone, your telephone plan is suited to your needs, and your various gizmos interact without conflict. Your spouse is athletic, your kids are bright, your job is rewarding, your promotions are inevitable, everywhere you need to be comes with its own accessible parking. You look great in casual slacks.”
“No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.”
“Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.”

Source : Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.94
“People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.”
“I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.”
“If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.”
“Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.”
“The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.”

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