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Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.
Frederick Lenz
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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
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Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill more people, that doesn't define intelligence. An intelligent species survives.
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If you want to create a different character, you can do so just by altering your style of dress and cosmetics.
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A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.
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If you can't feel grateful, if you're discouraged or depressed, then think of the fact that things could be a lot worse than they are.
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