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“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.” John Steinbeck, “The Winter of Our Discontent” - 1961

“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.” Charles Dickens, “Oliver Twist” - 1838

“We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“You see what you expect to see” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” - 2007

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