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• On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more positions to take, no certainties, no facts. Many people find this confusing about my films; they say I am hiding out behind irony. But from a cosmic viewpoint, it is eternally unimportant whether one lives or not.

  Peter Greenaway

  Believe, Views, Hands

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history of the world from a fresh perspective and enables readers to see it in a new light. That he has managed to do so in a single conceptual work is nothing short of astounding.

  Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

  Ocean, Light, Sea

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• Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.

  A.C. Grayling

  Philosophy, Mistake, Judging

  A. C. Grayling (1988). “Wittgenstein”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it out with your thumb. Then you realize that on that spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you — all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it right there on that little spot that you can cover with your thumb. And you realize from that perspective that you’ve changed forever, that there is something new there, that the relationship is no longer what it was.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Art, Block, Mean

  "Reflections From Paris and Beirut" by Samie Al-Achrafi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2015.

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• From a business perspective, the question related to cities and sustainability is clear and compelling: can you have a healthy company in an unhealthy city? Arguably, no. Companies need healthy cities to provide reliable infrastructure, an educated and vital workforce, a vibrant economy, and a safe and secure environment to survive and thrive. Business executives have a lot to learn from cities, and a lot to contribute, and this book shows the way, chronicling the successes and the lessons learned about what it takes to make a city healthy, in every sense of the word.

  Joel Makower

  Book, Cities, Healthy

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• Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of the objects, with a crude handling of matter. Moments altogether new, never seen before compositions whose boldness outstrips the imagination of painters Then the creation of those instants which do not exist, contrived by means of photomontage. The negative transmits altogether new stimuli to the sentient mind and eye.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Strong, Eye, Mean

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• An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.

  Nick Bantock

  Ideas, Events, Inevitable

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• Now clearly this advantage is when the data on tape has been found and just needs to be transferred back. You need to add a minute or so of seek time to find the data. On large transfers, though, tape should outpace most disk systems. From an ingest perspective, LTO-6 and other enterprise tape formats may be unrivaled when compared on a single unit basis.

  George Arthur Crump

  Data, Add, Needs

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• Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Motivational, Men, Different

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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• I meditate because evolution gave me a big brain, but it didn't come with an instruction manual. I meditate because life is too short and sitting slows it down. I meditate because life is too long and I need an occasional breakI meditate because it's such a relief to spend time ignoring myselfI meditate because I'm building myself a bigger and better perspective, and occasionally I need to add a new window.

  Wes Nisker

  Life Is Too Short, Long, Brain

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• So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Church, Membership, Firsts

  Thom S. Rainer (2013). “I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude that Makes the Difference”, p.39, B&H Publishing Group

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• We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Heart, Light, Trying

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• As educators, our challenge is to match the needs of our learners to a world that is changing with great rapidity. To meet this challenge, we need to become strategic learners ourselves by deliberately expanding our perspectives and updating our approaches.

  Heidi Hayes Jacobs

  Challenges, Needs, World

  Heidi Hayes Jacobs (2010). “Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World”, p.7, ASCD

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• Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Black And White, Color, People

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• EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

  Kengo Kuma

  Urban

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• From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

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  Ram Dass

  Trying, Needs, Born

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• The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses upon us a dynamic picture of the world of entities, structures and processes involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

  Arthur Peacocke

  World, Structure, Incessant

  "Paths From Science Towards God: The End of all Our Exploring".

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• The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

  Herbert Spencer

  Tyrants, Slave

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.118

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• May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth... lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth. But nature for us men is more depth than surface, whence the need to introduce into our light vibrations, represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blueness to give the feel of air.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Mean, Men

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• Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

  John Lithgow

  Awards, Bigs, Statues

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• When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.

  Preity Zinta

  Desire, Different, Return

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• Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.

  Michael Josephson

  Fun, Pleasure, Fulfillment

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• You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Fields, Take A Chance

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 09, 2013

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• One of the blessings of the temple is the perspective that it provides. When we go to the house of the Lord, we leave all of our cares and problems at the door. And when we come back out, they’re still there. We have to pick them back up and they haven’t changed, but what has changed is us.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Blessing, Doors, House

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• There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Objectivity, Knowing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.555, Modern Library

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