"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong."
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"The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective."
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"I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective..."
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"Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective."
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"One man's ceiling is another man's floor."
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"To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective."
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"I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet and that would mean challenging the whole capitalist industrial form of food production."
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"What we call results are beginnings."
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"While acting in Armed Response I was always focused, just so they could see me as a peer and maybe not some idiot who's coming in from the pro-wrestling world. I'm sure they had their preconceived notions about me so I just hope that once we were finished with a scene, or finished with the movie overall, that I managed to change their perspective based on what they were expecting."
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"I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art."
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"But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place."
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"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."
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"We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do"
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"Nothing ever is, everything is becoming."
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"It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak."
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"Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time."
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"It is the eye which makes the horizon."
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"Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective."
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"A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain."
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"We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms."
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