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“If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.”

“Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of this dangerous, mind-altering philosophy in tax supported schools, parks, museums, etc. is a clear violation of the First Amendment.”

“It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.”

Should Littles Views Streets Wall All Things Should Have Obsession Ironic Capitalist Slogans Accumulation

Book:The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

Source: The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

“Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.”

Giving Long Country Views Responsible Credit Our Country Intervention Troublesome Unifying

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.”

Mind Persons Use Views Cases Debate Probability Coherence

Author:Dennis Lindley

“It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.”

May Problem Views Notion Conviction Opposing Opposing Views

Author:Jack McDevitt

“Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.”

Should Firsts Art Reality Views Creation Development Moved Creator Point Of View Works Of Art Aesthetic Mastery Great Work Standpoint

Author:Amedeo Modigliani

“Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.”

“I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.”

Men Said Justice Views Judging Fit Equal Aim Innocent Guilty Consideration Permit Motto Jury Benches My Motto Innocent Man Grand Jury

Author:Isaac Parker

“May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.”

May Ability Views Gentle Ability To See

Author:B. W. Powe

“I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy.”

People Ifs Men Said Ideas Views Accepting Opinion Enemy Critical Nazi

Author:Baldur von Schirach

“Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.”

World Looks Past Spirit Individual Poor Views Stage Regret Mark Independence Point Of View Artistic Substitutes Glamour Present Day Old World Individual Freedom Festivities

Author:Flora Thompson

“There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment.”

“Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.”

Ifs Belief Left Views Let Me Bread Chasing

Author:Nikolai Gogol

“One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well, I'm now going to have three months where I'm just going to hang out and be with the family".”

Wells I Can Film Three Term Views Months Aspect Point Of View Lifestyle Hanging Out Three Months

Author:Hugo Weaving

“To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.”

War States Views Expression Speech Intellectual Strikes Free Expression Intellectual Freedom

Author:C. Vann Woodward

“If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical, and poetic realm in which the pictorial image functioned as an extension of the playwright's themes and structures (a metanarrative), then postmodern design is a dissonant reminder that no single point of view can predominate, even within a single image.”

Source: Looking Into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography

“A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions.”

Views Modern Subjects Evolution Honor Philosophical Endure Philosopher Critical Doctrine Analysis Assumption Biology Metaphysical Crucifixion Biologist High Places Critical Analysis

Author:George Trumbull Ladd

“To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.”

Past Church Views Accepting Particular Affair Refuse Progressive Unreasonable Unsafe

Author:George Trumbull Ladd

“A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral conception. In so far as any man strives to attain, by rational inquiry, a consistent and comprehensive view of life and reality, he is a metaphysician.”

Men World Philosophy Reality Views Unions Strive Rational Consistent Conception Metaphysics Strife Inquiry Comprehensive Harmonious World View

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“With the marketplace urging parents to buy all manner of things to make their babies ‘smart,’ Gallagher’s book offers parents a view based in science on how much babies really know and figure out on their own. Parents will have fun with this book and gain new respect and awe for their babies’ amazing capabilities.”

Knows Book Fun Parent Views Figures Baby Offers Smart Gains Having Fun Awe Capability Marketplace Gallagher

Author:Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

“How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without having to worry about what I was leaving behind. Throughout my entire time in those worlds, I was a soul with nothing to lose. No places to miss, no people to mourn. I had come from nowhere and had no history, so I fully accepted my circumstances-even the initial murk and mess of the Realm of the Earthworm's-Eye View-with equanimity.”

Source: Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

“We want you to express your point of view but without violence.”

Want Views Violence Point Of View

Author:Saleh al-Mutlaq

“A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.”

Knows Sometimes Matter Joy Night Dark Views Morning Higher Mentor

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark”

Stills Hate Natural Dark Views Setting Settings Cynical Default

Author:Alexei Sayle

“The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.”

“do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage”

Thinking Way Political Views Hell Stage Best Way Political View

Author:Brian De Palma

“[Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers' view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in their appearances, and attracting to such a degree as to excite in each individual thus happily employed the desire of knowing all respecting all he sees.”

Should Desire Individual Pleasure Interesting Views Steps Knowing Journey Objects Degrees Appearance Drawing Employed Traveller

Book:Writings and Drawings

Source: Writings and Drawings

“The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently of their being executed.”

Use Force Views Impossible Program Arguing Terminology

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.”

Ifs Sin Views Grace God's Grace

Author:Timothy Keller

“What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.”

World Whole Interesting Views Remarkable Headings World View

Author:Richard Dawkins

“But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.”

Perfect Views Gains Extremes Shelves Brows

Author:John Muir

“In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.”

People Government Views Stability

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.”

Winning Views Particular

Author:Alice Walker

“The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.”

People World Giving Together House White Views Media Fields Congress Oil Working Together White House Oil Field

Author:Gore Vidal

“Looking at the other person's point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.”

Want Should Persons Views Party Benefits Gains Point Of View Negotiation

Book:How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“My view is that an investor is better off knowing a lot about a few investments than knowing a little about each of a great many holdings. One's very best idea's are likely to generate higher returns for a given level of risk than one's hundredth or thousandth best idea.”

Littles Ideas Given Levels Views Knowing Risk Return Higher Investment Great Men Investors Better Off Holding On

Author:Seth Klarman

“How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space “in no time” is to have denied its reality”

Ifs Way Littles Reality Space Views Clear Tree Sky Rocks Crosses Photographer Denied

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.”

Film Views Sells Minorities Tickets

Author:Karel Reisz

“The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.”

Wells Children Individual Views Personality Quiet Convinced Plenty Thank God Cult Unjustified Individual Personality

Book:The World As I See It

Source: The World As I See It

“I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.”

Inspirational Trying Challenges Views Fortitude Confirmation Annoyance

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including yourself, depends upon you, I think there's a lot of ego involved in such a view, not much self-transcendence.”

Thinking Way Feels Self Views Compassion Depends Involved Ego Salvation Including All Time Transcendence

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles are in the same position as the insect's legs, and when tied with brightly colored hackles, these flies are easier to see on the float. A final advantage is that in rough water, a parachute-hackled dry fly will float longer and better than a conventional one”

Giving Feels Water Views Sea Position Easier Advantage Rivers Finals Fishes Legs Impression Boat Dry Lakes Fishing Rough Realistic Tied Conventional Insects Floats Files Parachutes

Author:Lefty Kreh

“I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.”

Community Views Definitions Point Of View Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I believe it should be the legal right of any woman who wants to have an abortion to have one. From the spiritual point of view, I don't see a problem with abortion in that the soul doesn't usually take incarnation until the last month before birth, sometimes not even until the moment of birth.”

Want Should Believe Soul Sometimes Moments Problem Lasts Spiritual I Believe Views Months Birth Point Of View Abortion Incarnation Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques, spiritual knowledge, hope and a brighter view of life.”

People Writing Stories Spiritual Views Written Adventure Technique Hopefully Metaphysical Brighter Rama Snowboarding Spiritual Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions, to spread such flowers over the regions through which the intellect has already made its progress, as may tempt it to return, and take a second view of things hastily passed over, or negligently regarded.”

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact.”

Writing Firsts May Desire Views Principles Ought Essentials Authority Customs Dictator Novelty Attainment Endeavour Breaking Rules Beauty Within

Book:Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

“It is, however, not necessary, that a man should forbear to write, till he has discovered some truth unknown before; he may be sufficiently useful, by only diversifying the surface of knowledge, and luring the mind by a new appearance to a second view of those beauties which it had passed over inattentively before.”

Men Should Writing Mind May Views Appearance Surface

Book:Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

“In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques chased them further and further, with the consequence that the fishermen of Biarritz discovered America before Columbus did. This is a matter for local pride but on a larger view it is not quite so stunning, since with the possible exception of the Swiss everybody discovered America before Columbus did.”

Matter America Used Views History Century Humour Pride Consequence Moved Locals Exception Efficiency Hunts Whales Fisherman Stunning Columbus Swiss Basques

Book:Flying Visits

Source: Flying Visits