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«It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.»
«To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.»
Author: Claude Simon
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Perception,
World
| Keywords:
deform, deformed, deforms, incomplete, selective, to begin with
«Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.»
«There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief and purpose. Even when individuals subordinate themselves and risk death in common cause, their genes are more likely to be transmitted to the next generation than are those of competing groups who lack equivalent resolve.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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cause of death, common cause, competing, devout, equivalent, gene, genes, groups, hereditary, in common, membership, selective, subordinate, subordinates, subordinating, The Next Generation, transmitted
«Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.»
Author: Garrison Keillor
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benevolent, cornerstone, cornerstones, frighten, gaze, look upon, nearsighted, rearing, saddle, saddling, selective, surveillance, tall, troops
«Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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