"The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror." — Hans-Georg Gadamer

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• Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was… — Graydon Carter
• Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further… — John Dewey
• In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in… — Rajneesh
• This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside,… — Rajneesh
• Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once… — Stefan Zweig
• I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate… — Marlon Brando
• Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any… — Isaiah Berlin
• Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring. — William Butler Yeats
• Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has… — Unknown Author
• In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good.… — Adyashanti
• If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for… — Sharon Olds
• Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption… — Paul Samuelson

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