"The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy."

-- William Wilberforce

#Eye Quotes #Immediacy Quotes #Magnification Quotes

“I have a lot of shoes.”
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.”
“...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.”
“The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.150, Xist Publishing
“You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.”

Source : "What I've Learned, By Skype's Niklas Zennstrom" by David Rowan, www.wired.com. November 06, 2010.
“This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.”

Source : Gerald Massey (1851). “Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love”, p.2
“We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.”
“Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.”

Source : Richard Carlson (1998). “The Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Workbook: Exercises, Questions, and Self-Tests to Help You Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life”, Hyperion

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