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"The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man." »Confucius
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"To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human...Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity." »John Comenius
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"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise." »Lord Chesterfield
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"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy." »Henry Havelock Ellis
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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood." »George Santayana
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"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle." »Matthew Arnold
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"If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war." »Albert Einstein
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"Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens." »Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." »Albert Einstein
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"Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift." »Tom Stoppard
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"Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid." »C. M. Cox
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"There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view." »Harry Millner
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"Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light." »Baltasar Gracian
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"Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view." »George Bush
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"My view is that one should not break up a winning combination." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view." »Wilma Askinas
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"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." »Dudley Moore
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"I take a simple view of life keep your eyes open and get on with it." »Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier
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"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it." »Sir Laurence Olivier
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"I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it." »Lord Brabazon
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view." »Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
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"Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." »George Lucas
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"Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves." »Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire
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"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy." »A. J. Liebling
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"You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. The view from Mir put everything in perspective." »Shannon Lucid
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"From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned." »George Orwell, Essay: "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)
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"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view." »Anonymous
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