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People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one… — Ayn Rand
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change… — Carl Sagan
The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads.… — Kurt Vonnegut
You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you… — John Irving
Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red… — Dave Eggers
Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit… — Quentin Tarantino
The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every… — Nancy Garden
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views. — George Sand
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug… — Milton Friedman
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt. — Mark Twain
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place… — Marcel Proust
He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. — Ian Mcewan
The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view — Jack Kerouac
Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco. — Susanna Kaysen
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve,… — Ayn Rand
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in… — Albert Einstein
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered… — Nelson Mandela
A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top. — Confucius
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be… — Abraham Lincoln
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for… — Richard Dawkins
I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God. — Johann Sebastian Bach
A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed… — Tim O'Brien
Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must… — Robinson Jeffers
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. — Aldous Huxley

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