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• The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

  Hakim Bey

  Wine, Sight, Water

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• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sheep, Agreement, Civil War

  Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

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• All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

  Deb Caletti

  Liars, Events, Shifting

  Deb Caletti (2013). “He's Gone: A Novel”, p.332, Bantam

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• Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.

  Robert Sheckley

  Originality, Concepts

  Robert Sheckley (2014). “The Robot Who Looked Like Me: Stories”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Race, Political, Politics

  Frederic Bastiat (2001). “Economic Fallacies”, p.61, Simon Publications LLC

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• Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.

  Dale Carnegie

  People, Sympathetic, Persons

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.142, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Art, Nature, Pain

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.10, Macmillan

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• In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

  Dalai Lama

  Respect, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

  Bobby Jindal

  Crowds, Politically Correct, Disagree

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2013

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• It's like everybody's sitting there and they have some kind of veil over their face, and they look at each other through this veil that makes them see each other through some stereotypical kind of viewpoint. If we're ever gonna collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we're gonna have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Moving, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent what is actually more real than what our eyes are able to see. They allow the viewers to be inspired by taking their own perception beyond their senses and their surroundings.

  Freydoon Rassouli

  Art, Real, Inspiration

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• Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children.

  Mary Ruwart

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and racial disturbance since its inception. It should be abolished, not extended.

  John Sparkman

  Rights, Trouble, Should

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• The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint.

  David J. Lieberman

  Snap Judgment, Next, Moments

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• When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work.

  Edward Weston

  Hate, Liars, Support

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr. (28 September 1949), from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1997.

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• I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Race, Agreement

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Out of my later years”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him because a man of understanding can understand the viewpoint of the other also. He knows why the other feels as he feels, he knows why the other is angry, because he knows his own self, and in knowing that, he has known all others.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Men, Compassion

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• Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye.

  Georges Braque

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• Look at problems from as many viewpoints as possible. Figure out the implications of the problem. Implement the solution.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Looks, Problem, Figures

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• From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or public employment system), and the debate was as misframed as would be a debate between the private or public ownership of slaves.

  David P. Ellerman

  Democracy, Would Be, Employment

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• We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.

  J. I. Packer

  Bible, Biblical, Mind

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• What is impossible to see from the viewpoint of those who believe in cures is that the very symptoms the good doctors have suppressed and turned into chronic disease were the body's only means of correcting the problem! The so-called "disease" was the only "cure" possible!

  Philip K. Chapman

  Believe, Mean, Health

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• And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Character, Moral High Ground, Play

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• Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration. They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Race, Issues

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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