Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
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The chance of the bread falling with the butter side down is directly proportional to the value of the carpet.
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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.
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Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
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Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
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Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
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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.
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I'm not in denial i'm just selective about the reality i choose to acept
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Law of Selective Gravity: An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
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If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.
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You will lose most 50/50 bets you make.
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