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To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Science, Unique, Mystery

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A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Religious, Art, Giving

"Truth and Method". Book by Hans-Georg Gadamer (p. 76), 1960.

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One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task............ .....Thus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.

Abdu'l-Bahá

Race, People, Tasks

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Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Powerful, Ambition, Russia

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I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.

Leslie Easterbrook

Pain, Acting, Wrecks

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

George H. Mead

Psychology, Phases, Psychological

"Mind, Self, and Society". Book by George Herbert Mead, 1934.

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What keeps you motivated? The challenge of putting all the elements of a team together and seeing how you do and what you become is the thing that I still enjoy. I also enjoy the associations and relationships with the players and other coaches - to be in the arena, so to speak. I still enjoy that. I'm also at the point, though, that if we're not doing well - it's tough enough as it is - that I'm not going to be hanging on just to be hanging on. Because it's not anything I need from an ego standpoint or anything else. I just thoroughly enjoy what I'm doing.

LaVell Edwards

Team, Player, Justice

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But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful and (for want of a better word) magical in its logic, even if it has been in fashion for a couple of centuries or more.

David Bentley Hart

Fashion, Couple, Philosophical

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I'm more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and Olympic champions begin at a grassroots level.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Hands, People, Support

"Five minutes with Jackie Joyner-Kersee". Interview With Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. May 2, 2012.

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Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Sidney Hook

Philosophy, Hook, Surveys

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Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

Boomer Esiason

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From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

Jim DeMint

Christian, Important, Principles

"Interview: Sen. Jim DeMint on Tea Party, U.S. Debt, and God's Calling". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is the central task of all educators. It is the genius of the student that is the driving force behind all learning. Before educators take on any of the other important issues in learning, they must first have a thorough understanding of what lies at the core of each student's intrinsic motivation to learn, and that motivation originates in each student's genius.

Thomas Armstrong

Motivation, Lying, Mean

Thomas Armstrong (1998). “Awakening Genius in the Classroom”, p.2, ASCD

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None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters.

Bell Hooks

Running, Thinking, Class

bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.179, Routledge

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We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.

Mark Messier

Sports, Team, Long

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Though it were proved that there was never an Aryan race in the past, yet we desire that in the future there may be one. This is the decisive standpoint for men of action.

Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Past, Men, Race

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We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.

Oswald Chambers

Valleys, Glory, Gods Will

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This was an extremely difficult decision as I take great pride in representing our country. I know that I owe it to my USA Basketball teammates to be totally invested in the experience. After going through training camp with USAB, I realized I could not fulfill my responsibilities to the team from both a time and energy standpoint. I need to take a step back and take some time away, both mentally and physically in order to prepare for the upcoming NBA season. I will be rooting for USAB and look forward to future opportunities with them.

Kevin Durant

Basketball, Country, Team

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In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world

Alfred North Whitehead

Mirrors, World, Location

Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

Derek Magyar

Actors, Approach

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Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.

Flannery O'Connor

Christian, Writing, Ideas

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For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.

Alan Watts

Real, Trying, Collaboration

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From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

Steig Larsson

Attitude, Chance, Capitulation

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My standpoint is armed neutrality.

Soren Kierkegaard

Neutrality

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Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

Paul Brunton

Yield, Ego, Twists

Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”

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