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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point… — Richard Dawkins
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are… — Michael Crichton
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. — Horace
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious… — Gerhard Richter
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents… — Gerhard Richter
From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also… — George W. Bush
The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this… — Sharon Olds
I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women,… — Sean Penn
Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and… — John Ashcroft
I'm not the one who was elected." Although she disagreed with her husband on "a lot of issues," she emphasized, "I would never do anything… — Laura Bush
Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards… — Edith Cavell
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. — Clifford Geertz
We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. — Robert H. Shaffer
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of… — Adolphe Quetelet
We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and… — Nicolas Steno
The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please… — Unknown Author
Style is the perfection of a point of view. — Richard Eberhart

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