Umberto Eco Quotes
If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
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We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
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I never read about photography.
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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.
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Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
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I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.
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When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.
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I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.
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The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.
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I don't eat for pleasure; I eat for performance.
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So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?
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If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
