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> [“Worldviews also largely determine people’s opinions on matters of ethics and politics. What you think about abortion, euthanasia, same-sex relationships, public education,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-n-anderson/worldviews-also-largely-determine-people-s-opinions-on-matters-of/)

[James N. Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-n-anderson/)

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> [In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance - because there's two sides…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/in-the-muslim-world-this-notion-that-somehow-everything-is-the-fault/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [“If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/if-peace-comes-from-seeing-the-whole-then-misery-stems-from-a-loss-of/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-nepo/)

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> [I hadn't had that much time practicing behind the drum kit. I've spent an inordinate amount of time listening to and programming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rjd2/i-hadn-t-had-that-much-time-practicing-behind-the-drum-kit-i-ve-spent/)

[RJD2](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rjd2/)

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> [The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tao-lin/the-idea-of-advice-in-terms-of-telling-people-advice-or-asking-people/)

[Tao Lin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tao-lin/)

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> [Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-levinson/now-more-than-ever-we-need-people-in-space-the-events-of-september-11/)

[Paul Levinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-levinson/)

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> [Other ways of looking at the environmental or climate change stuff is to frame it in the context that it is simultaneously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bloomberg/other-ways-of-looking-at-the-environmental-or-climate-change-stuff-is/)

[Michael Bloomberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bloomberg/)

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> [I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-r-r-martin-2/i-m-a-strong-believer-in-telling-stories-through-a-limited-but-very/)

[George R. R. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-r-r-martin-2/)

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> [Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-brodsky/literature-sort-of-makes-your-daily-operation-your-daily-conduct-the/)

[Joseph Brodsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-brodsky/)

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> [“The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-world-as-it-is-is-the-world-as-god-sees-it-not-as-we-see-it-our/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/not-enough-books-focus-on-how-a-culture-responds-to-radically-new-2/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [What's great about 'Game of Thrones' is they change the perspective, the POV, all the time. So you will have one story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolaj-coster-waldau/what-s-great-about-game-of-thrones-is-they-change-the-perspective-the/)

[Nikolaj Coster-Waldau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolaj-coster-waldau/)

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> [Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-bourdain/assume-the-worst-about-everybody-but-don-t-let-this-poisoned-outlook/)

[Anthony Bourdain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-bourdain/)

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> [The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/the-suburban-west-is-from-a-moral-perspective-depressing-evidence/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

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> [I started reading the works of Swami Vivekananda. That gave me courage and a vision, it sharpened and deepened my sensitivities and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/narendra-modi/i-started-reading-the-works-of-swami-vivekananda-that-gave-me-courage/)

[Narendra Modi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/narendra-modi/)

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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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-fitzgerald/i-really-enjoy-my-philanthropic-work-traveling-around-the-world-and/)

[Larry Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-fitzgerald/)

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> [There's nothing wrong with commercial art. There's nothing wrong with consumer society. There's nothing wrong with advertising. There's nothing wrong with shopping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chloe-wise/there-s-nothing-wrong-with-commercial-art-there-s-nothing-wrong-with/)

[Chloe Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chloe-wise/)

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> [“You begin to suspect, as you gaze through this you-shaped hole of insight and fire, that though it is the most important…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-r-delany/you-begin-to-suspect-as-you-gaze-through-this-you-shaped-hole-of/)

[Samuel R. Delany](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-r-delany/)

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> [ A lot of the book \[The Yoga of Max's Discontent\] is about karma and rebirth. Things like that are very attuned to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-bajaj/a-lot-of-the-book-the-yoga-of-max-s-discontent-is-about-karma-and/)

[Karan Bajaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-bajaj/)

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> [When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henning-mankell/when-i-was-a-very-young-author-i-knew-i-needed-to-build-myself-a/)

[Henning Mankell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henning-mankell/)

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> [“As a whole, humanity doesn’t lend itself to generalizations. But as I see it, there are two types of people: the comprehensive-vision…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/as-a-whole-humanity-doesn-t-lend-itself-to-generalizations-but-as-i/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [To make a record requires a strategy; it's not just throwing somebody in the studio and seeing how it goes. Some artists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-corson/to-make-a-record-requires-a-strategy-it-s-not-just-throwing-somebody/)

[Tom Corson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-corson/)

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> [Being hapa, or more specifically, half-Japanese half-Euro mutt (English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, French, Welsh, German. . .in case you were wondering), has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kina-grannis/being-hapa-or-more-specifically-half-japanese-half-euro-mutt-english/)

[Kina Grannis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kina-grannis/)

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> [“Some years ago, two social psychologists, Edward Jones and Richard Nisbett, argued that when it comes to explaining people's behavior-something like achievement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-m-steele/some-years-ago-two-social-psychologists-edward-jones-and-richard/)

[Claude M. Steele](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-m-steele/)

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> [No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-gordon-webster/no-one-lives-on-the-top-of-the-mountain-it-s-fine-to-go-there/)

[Arthur Gordon Webster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-gordon-webster/)

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> [I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-chambers/i-must-learn-that-the-purpose-of-my-life-belongs-to-god-not-me-god-is/)

[Oswald Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-chambers/)

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> [I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathryn-stockett/i-m-a-southerner-i-never-take-satisfaction-in-touching-a-nerve-i/)

[Kathryn Stockett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathryn-stockett/)

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> [Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/those-who-see-the-cosmic-perspective-as-a-depressing-outlook-they/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gro-harlem-brundtland/it-s-very-difficult-to-evaluate-a-leader-in-a-very-short-term/)

[Gro Harlem Brundtland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gro-harlem-brundtland/)

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> [If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/if-you-understand-something-in-only-one-way-then-you-don-t-really/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

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> [When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-minkoff/when-we-make-films-even-2d-films-you-re-always-trying-to-create-this/)

[Rob Minkoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-minkoff/)

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> [Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neale-donald-walsch/nothing-is-as-bad-as-it-seems-nothing-there-is-a-benefit-and-a/)

[Neale Donald Walsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neale-donald-walsch/)

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> [In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-yolen/in-fantasy-stories-we-learn-to-understand-the-differences-of-others/)

[Jane Yolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-yolen/)

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> [Given the importance of Washington, outsiders probably have an unrealistic perspective on how large the city is. The fact is, Washington D.C.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-hassett/given-the-importance-of-washington-outsiders-probably-have-an/)

[Kevin Hassett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-hassett/)

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> [“The writer should have a comprehensive outlook. He should aim at a holistic understanding of the prevailing social, political and economic conditions.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayakanthan/the-writer-should-have-a-comprehensive-outlook-he-should-aim-at-a/)

[Jayakanthan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayakanthan/)

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> [Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-kitcher/philosophy-by-showing-including-philosophy-in-literature-does-truly/)

[Philip Kitcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-kitcher/)

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> [For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-naomi-remen/for-many-years-now-i-have-listened-to-the-stories-of-people-with/)

[Rachel Naomi Remen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-naomi-remen/)

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> [Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilferd-peterson/leonardo-da-vinci-one-of-the-greatest-creative-thinkers-of-all-time/)

[Wilferd Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilferd-peterson/)

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> [“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/christmas-time-that-man-must-be-a-misanthrope-indeed-in-whose-breast/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbie-hancock/i-don-t-view-myself-as-a-musician-anymore-i-view-myself-as-a-human/)

[Herbie Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbie-hancock/)

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                        "text": "In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance - because there's two sides to every question. That doesn't mean that sometimes one side has done something wrong and should not be condemned. But it does mean there's always two sides to an issue. I say the same thing to my Jewish friends, which is you have to see the perspective of the Palestinians. Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen.",
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                        "text": "“If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life just happens. Then we stub our toe, and in that moment of pain, the whole world is reduced to our poor little toe. Now, for a day or two, it is difficult to walk. With every step, we are reminded of our poor little toe. Our vigilance becomes: Which defines our day—the pinch we feel in walking on a bruised toe, or the miracle still happening? It is the giving over to smallness that opens us to misery. In truth, we begin taking nothing for granted, grateful that we have enough to eat, that we are well enough to eat. But somehow, through the living of our days, our focus narrows like a camera that shutters down, cropping out the horizon, and one day we’re miffed at a diner because the eggs are runny or the hash isn’t seasoned just the way we like. When we narrow our focus, the problem seems everything. We forget when we were lonely, dreaming of a partner. We forget first beholding the beauty of another. We forget the comfort of first being seen and held and heard. When our view shuts down, we’re up in the night annoyed by the way our lover pulls the covers or leaves the dishes in the sink without soaking them first. In actuality, misery is a moment of suffering allowed to become everything. So, when feeling miserable, we must look wider than what hurts. When feeling a splinter, we must, while trying to remove it, remember there is a body that is not splinter, and a spirit that is not splinter, and a world that is not splinter.”",
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                        "text": "I hadn't had that much time practicing behind the drum kit. I've spent an inordinate amount of time listening to and programming drum parts, but it's completely different. One of the beautiful things about using a sampler is since you are so detached from traditional technique, you're forced to have a macro perspective of the project. With an instrument, it's the opposite. With drums specifically, there's nothing that provides more instant gratification and nothing that's funner to play.",
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                        "text": "The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.",
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                        "text": "Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here on Earth... So let us use our strength, our awareness of mortality as a civilization, to do something truly lasting and earth-shaking for humanity. Let us join with the peoples and cultures of this planet, the diversities of its perspectives and religions and science, so we can leave it-not behind, but as a springboard to something better.",
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                        "text": "Other ways of looking at the environmental or climate change stuff is to frame it in the context that it is simultaneously a public health issue. One out of eight premature deaths worldwide happens because of air pollution. The worst power plant in America kills 278 people a year and causes 445 heart attacks. So, when we improve air quality we improve our lives, and at the same time we improve the climate as well. We must see climate policy from this perspective and not as an abstract threat that may threaten our survival in 100 years.",
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                        "text": "I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my career, like the first person or the omniscient view point, but I actually hate the omniscient viewpoint. None of us have an omniscient viewpoint; we are alone in the universe. We hear what we can hear... we are very limited. If a plane crashes behind you I would see it but you wouldn't. That's the way we perceive the world and I want to put my readers in the head of my characters.",
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                        "text": "Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it puts what you do in perspective, and people don't like to see themselves or their activities in perspective. They don't feel quite comfortable with that. Nobody wants to acknowledge the insignificance of his life, and that is very often the net result of reading a poem.",
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                        "text": "“The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.”",
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                        "text": "“Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening. Instead, I ask, After evolution was discovered, how did religion and society respond? After cities were electrified, how did daily life change? After the airplane could fly from one country to another, how did commerce or warfare change? After we walked on the Moon, how differently did we view Earth? My larger understanding of people, places and things derives primarily from stories surrounding questions such as those.”",
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                        "text": "What's great about 'Game of Thrones' is they change the perspective, the POV, all the time. So you will have one story told by one character and you'll go, 'Oh my God, horrible', and then maybe the season after you have the same story told but from the person you thought was just the most horrible, vile creature.",
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                        "text": "Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.",
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                        "text": "The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to the landscape, an unexpected glory. Over the cheap tracts and littered arroyos one sometimes see a light as clean as that recorded by O'Sullivan. Since it owes nothing to our care, it is an assurance; beauty is final.",
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                        "text": "I started reading the works of Swami Vivekananda. That gave me courage and a vision, it sharpened and deepened my sensitivities and gave me a new perspective and a direction in life. I decided to dedicate myself to others and till date I am continuing to follow that decision.",
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                        "text": "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 when you come back and you say, 'Man, it's raining again in Minnesota.'",
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                        "text": "“You begin to suspect, as you gaze through this you-shaped hole of insight and fire, that though it is the most important thing you own — never deny that for an instant — it has not shielded you from anything terribly important. The only consolation is that though one could have thrown it away at any time, morning or night, one didn't. One chose to endure. Without any assurance of immortality, or even competence, one only knows one has not been cheated out of the consolation of carpenters, accountants, doctors, ditch-diggers, the ordinary people who must do useful things to be happy. Meander along, then, half blind and a little mad, wondering when you actually learned — was it before you began? — the terrifying fact that had you thrown it away, your wound would have been no more likely to heal: indeed, in an affluent society such as this, you might even have gone on making songs, poems, pictures, and getting paid. The only difference would have been — and you learned it listening to all those brutally unhappy people who did throw away theirs — and they do, after all, comprise the vast and terrifying majority — that without it, there plainly and starkly would have been nothing there; no, nothing at all.”",
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                        "text": "To make a record requires a strategy; it's not just throwing somebody in the studio and seeing how it goes. Some artists are self-contained, but they still need advice about producers and collaborations and single choice. They need an army and a perspective and creative friction, because nobody has all the ideas.",
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                        "text": "Being hapa, or more specifically, half-Japanese half-Euro mutt (English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, French, Welsh, German. . .in case you were wondering), has definitely helped shape who I am. It's very cool to get to identify and learn about all these unique cultures and I think it's helped put the world in perspective.",
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                        "text": "“Some years ago, two social psychologists, Edward Jones and Richard Nisbett, argued that when it comes to explaining people's behavior-something like achievement problems, for example there is a big difference between the \"observer's perspective\"-the perspective of a person observing the behavior-and the \"actor's perspective\"-the perspective of a person doing the behavior. As observers, Jones and Nisbett said, we're looking at the actor, the person doing the behavior we are trying to explain. Thus the actor dominates our literal and mental visual field, which makes the circumstances to which he is responding less visible to us. In the resulting picture in our minds, the actor sticks out like a sore thumb and the circumstances to which he is responding are obscured from view. Jones and Nisbett held that this picture causes a bias when we try to explain the actor's behavior. We emphasize the things we can see. We emphasize things about the actor-characteristics, traits, and so on-that seem like plausible explanations for her behavior. And we deemphasize, as causes of her behavior, the things we can't see very well, namely, the circumstances to which she is adapting.”",
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                        "text": "No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.",
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                        "text": "I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.",
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                        "text": "I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.",
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                        "text": "Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me.",
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                        "text": "In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.",
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                        "text": "Given the importance of Washington, outsiders probably have an unrealistic perspective on how large the city is. The fact is, Washington D.C. is a small town, and most everyone knows most everyone else. That person of the other party who you despise will someday be at your daughter's birthday party.",
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