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“From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.”

Space Views Conditions Enlightenment Point Of View Absence All Time Time And Space Unreal

Author:Frederick Lenz

“From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.”

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Book:Mill and Liberalism

Source: Mill and Liberalism

“The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.”

Character Life Is Views Conditions Argument Point Of View Strongest Tolerate Materialistic American Life

Book:On the contrary

Source: On the contrary

“Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.”

Views Conditions Regard Shoes Point Of View Selfish Percentages

Book:Some everyday folk and dawn

Source: Some everyday folk and dawn

“Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It's all been a marvelous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting. It's not like a totalitarian state, where it's done by force. These achievements are under conditions of freedom.”

Source: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

“Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.”

Stories Literature Views Conditions Poet Down And Point Of View Novelists Relative Upside Down Classical Literature

Author:Margaret Drabble

“It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a look at all the peoples in the world, we have to realize that the condition of women is very backward and sometimes very sad, from both the social and psychological points of view.”

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Author:Dacia Maraini

“There is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas or propaganda. On the one hand we are dealing with a virus which can be transported and transmitted under certain conditions which favor or limit its transportation or transmission: on the other hand with ideas, religions, and doctrines, which can be described as germs, benevolent or malevolent, according to the point of view one takes up. These germs can either remain at their source and be sterile, or emerge in the spreading of infection.”

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Author:Andre Siegfried

“I think democracy fails under a variety of conditions and one of the conditions occurs when people don't have the ability to get the kind of information they need to make up their mind. Ideologically, I don't care much for FOX News. But the truth is that, as long as there are countervailing points of view available on the spectrum, it doesn't matter.”

“Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that can help illuminate what a consensus might be to important issues.”

People Humans Important Different Helping Might Views Issues Conditions Concern Folks Point Of View Human Condition Consensus Folk Music Important Issues Different Points Of View

Author:Mary Travers