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The eye sees what the mind is disposed to recognize.
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Mann emphasizes the importance of perception and recognition in understanding the world.
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Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
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