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Not a single one of the men who were close to me has ever had a direction-giving influence on my inclinations, strivings, or my world-view. On the contrary, most of the time I was the guiding spirit. I acquired my view of life, my political line from life itself, and in uninterrupted study from books.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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I always thought that my canine family tended to view me as the funny-looking two-legged dog who runs the can opener.
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We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.
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An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.
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We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.
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You will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that I ever received.
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The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go ashore unnoticed by the guards. Its winter is mild because it is enclosed by a range of mountains which keeps out the fierce temperature; its summer is unequal. The open sea is very pleasant and it has a view of a beautiful bay.
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I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.
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I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.
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For Ayn had built up a comprehensive systematic philosophy, which she calls Objectivism, and which, once you accept its first premises, is the most closely reasoned, rigorously logical and consistently interlocking world view and explanation since the great synthesis of Thomas Aquinas.
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What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.
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Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.
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It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
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Most who have been looking at the fourth quarter view that as a blip rather than a trend and expect a continued strong economy.
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We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.
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It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.
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The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
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The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God.
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Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and ideology than about the past. Paleontology reveals more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about, but that is heresy.
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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
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But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
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The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
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I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.
