"A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood."
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"Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition."
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"I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view."
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"I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view."
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"I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing."
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"History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field."
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"The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning. To-day it is hardly definable in scientific terms, except as an abstract concept which may, under certain conditions, very different from those now prevalent, have been realized approximately in the past and might, under certain other but equally different conditions, be realized in the distant future."
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"Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love."
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"By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West, the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads, by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance."
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"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."
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"The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed."
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"Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself."
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"I'm learning in my own sort of quiet, out-of-the-spotlight kind of way. I certainly have my general point of view about the government, and the future of our children. I'm certainly learning all the time, I'm happy to be an onlooker for now."
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"Abuse of power isn't limited to 'bad guys' in other nations. It happens in our own country. Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced by power itself. I have a reverence for individuality. I've always considered myself too individualistic to be either right-wing or left-wing. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. People should be able to be what they want to be and do what they want - as long as they're not harming other people. I am a libertarian."
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"Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent."
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"Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account."
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"A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world."
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"It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought."
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"We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets."
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"There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see."
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