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Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.