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With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief. — Jane Smiley
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental… — Charles Darwin
As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness,… — William James
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no… — Theodore Dreiser
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the… — Hugo Black
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white… — William Faulkner
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit… — Sonia Sotomayor
I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean. — Kat Dennings
The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might… — Abraham Lincoln
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance… — Thomas Jefferson
Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as… — George Santayana
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications… — Noah Webster
In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so… — Jonas Salk
This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they… — George Crabbe
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what… — Pema Chodron
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which… — Martin Luther
My view is that we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to… — Mitt Romney
My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society,… — Thomas Jefferson
When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish. — Wilt Chamberlain

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