#perceive

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. ↗

— Lactantius

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Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism. ↗

— Robert Lanza

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The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

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I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor! ↗

— Lyle Lovett

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The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.' ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

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The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind. ↗

— Andrew McCarthy

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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be. ↗

— Origen

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