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Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious e...

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Napoleon HillYou Can Work Your Own Miracles

If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It's really very basic.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different ...

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We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is...

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with on...

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A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiratio...

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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceive...

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That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our s...

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The world is awash with colours unseen and abuzz with unheard frequencies. Undetected and disregarde...

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What', said he, ' makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation? Every be...

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I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, a...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simples...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

And so I had to turn corners inside-out with my eyes and to read the third side of a book's page, se...

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Thomas LigottiSongs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Are You Ready for New Urban Fragrances?Yeah, I guess I'm ready, but listen:Perfume is a disguise. Si...

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Tom RobbinsWild Ducks Flying Backward

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazing...

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For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by usin...

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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a ...

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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and th...

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Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by...

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It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presenc...

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William JamesThe Varieties of Religious Experience

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

I say, "it seemed to me," for from the depths of my past childhood, there now awoke in me the glimme...

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It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthra...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above,...

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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above t...

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Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise...

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C. S. LewisSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally be...

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Diane AckermanA Natural History of the Senses

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you...

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Diane AckermanA Natural History of the Senses

...just because you see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s there. And if you don’t see something...

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In children's art class we sat in a ring of kindergarten chairs and drew three daffodils that had ju...

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Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as ...

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A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot...

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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarc...

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Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams

Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, a...

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That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For how should the faculty of k...

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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. ...

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There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet...

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John AdamsThe Political Writings of John Adams

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according t...

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Testers for 7-Up consistently found consumers would report more lemon flavor in their product if the...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ...

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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has mi...

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