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• I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

  Christopher Rice

  Unique, Reality, Thinking

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• To think that land reform is going to somehow automatically create an equitable system, I think that's just wrong. It's a very technical view of the world.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Thinking, Land, Reform

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, The Liberator Magazine, Volume 7.2, Issue 22, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.

  Edward Said

  Country, Islamic, Two

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some points I had doubts about becoming a professional philosopher, but the example of two of my teachers, Ezequiel de Olaso and Juan Rodriguez Larreta, made me confirm my original decision.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Teacher, Philosophy, Character

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In my view the bundle theorist should say that when a bundle is located somewhere, there is an 'instance' of the bundle there. The instance is entirely constituted by the universals of the bundle. But the bundle and the instance are two distinct entities. Bundles of universals can be multiply located, but their instances cannot, and particulars are instances of a bundle of universals.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Two, Should, Bundles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If there are to be appropriate judgments about what questions are significant, you need both the informed views of scientists who know what has been achieved and what future developments are promising and the reflective judgments of representatives of different groups who can identify what kinds of information are most urgently needed.

  Philip Kitcher

  Groups, Different, Needs

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.

  Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

  People, Cynical, Feelings

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• Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Book, Writing, Past

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• As a John Kerry supporter, I wanted to send him a check. But then it occurred to me that most of that money would end up in the hands of advertising agencies and television networks. And the money would be used to create deceptive commercials that flatter our point of view and shade the facts our way. And I wasn't comfortable with that. But on the other hand, that's how the game is played. You're always grappling.

  George Meyer

  Agency, Hands, Games

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• There is a tendency sometimes within the Shambhala community to make it just about meditating and, so, less about compassion. Shambhala is based upon compassion, but a lot of people come in and say, "I need to get more meditation. I need to do this for me, me, me." That's fine, but the view here is much more societal.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Compassion, People, Community

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• From my point of view, the American financial system - including banks and investment banks - is far safer because of capital and liquidity requirements. Despite all the turbulence so far this year, I don't think anyone's questioning our system. And that, obviously, is a good thing.

  Jamie Dimon

  Thinking, Years, Requirements

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.

  Louis Menand

  Thinking, Political, Trying

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point of view, but it talks about the birth of this religion, and I thought it was pretty admiring of the person at the center of it, the prophet of Islam.

  Salman Rushdie

  Mean, Islam, Stuff

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• What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn't matter what job I took, my mother's answer was, "Do what will make you happy." It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today's events will bring.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Jobs, Optimistic

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Love Is, Opposites

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I think people who want to use genetic technologies to gain a competitive edge for their children are engaging in a kind of overreaching that could really undermine our appreciation of children as gifts for which we should be grateful and, instead, to view them as products or instruments that are there to be molded and directed.

  Michael Sandel

  Appreciation, Children, Grateful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.

  Michael Sandel

  Jewish Tradition, Catholic, Church

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Although my own view is that bin Laden does not want to stage an attack that looks like 9/11 in Europe simply because he does not want to be the agent of Trans-Atlantic reconciliation. I think they will continue to do attacks like Madrid, the British attack, the subway systems, because those attacks have proven that the European response so far has been to blame the domestic government, not to side with the Americans.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, Government, Europe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.

  Norm Phelps

  Animal, Rights, Church

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• It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

  Nick Kroll

  Character, Easier, Figures

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The great danger of the media is that it gives us a very perverted view of the world. Because the focus and the repetition of messaging is on the negative, that’s what our minds start believing. This warped and narrow view of what’s not working has a severe influence on your creative potential. It can be crippling.

  Darren Hardy

  Believe, Media, Giving

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Jan 21, 2015

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• Well, the role of our "allies," in my view, is a scandal. 53 other countries cooperated in the kidnapping, "extraordinary rendition," of suspected terrorists to black sites where they were administered enhanced interrogation techniques, which by the way is a direct, literal translation of "verschärfte Vernehmung" right out of the Gestapo manual.

  Ray McGovern

  Country, Interrogation Techniques, Black

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I have a broad view that we have to try and get to "yes" on projects. On economic projects anybody can say no. My child can say no. But I think the hard thing to do is to figure out how you get to "yes" and you protect the environment.

  Christy Clark

  Children, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's just been a couple of moments where - we did the one [ Carpool Karaoke] with Justin Bieber, which kind of went crazy and I think is at, like 65 million views on YouTube .

  James Corden

  Couple, Crazy, Thinking

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• I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.

  Mark Parker

  People, Creative, Together

  Source: www.complex.com

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