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Abraham Maslow
[b. 1908, Brooklyn, New York, d. 1970, Menlo Park, California.]
In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.