Views Quotes
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This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.
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Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views.
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To air one's views gratuitously, is to imply that the demand for them is brisk.
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Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold.
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Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.
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In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for our actions, we compare ourselves to the foil of all foils, the Nazi period. It's a quest for moral certainty by saying, "Even if we're not doing great these days, at least we're not the Third Reich." Which can be consoling or alarmist. There's always a present-day agenda behind it.
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There's been way too much hyperbole. To get back to any good science you've got to get away from that and get back to the bench, ... I think the field is ripe for some young scientist who doesn't have any cemented views to come in and look at this and paint it with a brand-new brush.
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Don't look down, it's an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do.
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Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion.
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In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum.
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I view my hair and clothes as functional art.
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
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There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.
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Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
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Political views in the hiring of career attorneys and staff should not be used. If I am asked to do that, I will not allow it.
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I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.
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We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.
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So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a deeply human tale, and a character study as well.
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To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.
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I just talk, and I guess some of my views came out.
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For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.
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My view always is that we should learn the lessons, both of the last sort of 50 years of policy-making and it is possible to get to a foreign policy that is engaged and active without going back to where we were in the post-9/11 world.
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One of the interesting things about being in public life is there are constantly these pressures being placed on you from different sides. To be effective, you have to be able to listen to a variety of points of view, synthesize viewpoints.
