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“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”

“I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.”

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Author:Philip Johnson

“From the gardener's point of view, November can be the worst month to be faced: Nature is winding things down, the air is cold, skies are gray, but usually the final mark of punctuation to the year as yet to arrive - the snow; snow that covers all in the garden and marks a mind-set for the end of a year's activity. There is little to do outside except to wait for longer days in the new year and the joys of coming holidays.”

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Author:H. Peter Loewer

“The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions and insights. No one can admonish them successfully: not a peer, not a local superior, not even the pope himself. They know - and that is the end of the matter. Filled as they are with their own views, the arrogant lack the capacity to see another view.”

People Knows Persons Ends Matter Views Opinion Proud Capacity Filled Humble Insight Locals Superiors Arrogant Peers Pope Admonish Humble Person

Book:Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment

Source: Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment

“Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.”

May Long Ends Feelings Success Views Journey Wind Training Stones Feel Good Stepping Stones Pads

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it on to others. We ought to have four ears,- two for ourselves, and two for other people. My Bible is worth a good deal to me because I have so many passages marked that, if I am called upon to speak at any time, I am ready. We ought to be prepared to pass around heavenly thoughts and truths, just as we do the coin of the realm.”

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Book:Talks to Christians

Source: Talks to Christians

“Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.”

People Thinking World Trying Ends Seems Might Views Half Imagine This World Building Comfort Comfortable Regard Prison Ugly Doctrine Optimistic Hotel Pessimist Other Half

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.”

“The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends up by being lost, and disguised in servitude. It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist just because his views on freedom go beyond their petty and narrow concepts of freedom learned in the State school.”

Mind Believe Ends States School Lost Views Concepts Hatred Sight Notion Revolutionary Petty Anarchism Anarchist Servitude Unleashing

Author:Peter Kropotkin

“Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose.”

World May Children Ends Young Purpose Humanity Parent Views Generations Subjects Instruments Realization Educate Promotion

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.”

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.”

Art Ends Literature Difficult Views Trouble Critical Point Of View Innocent Propaganda Fascists Avant Garde Kitsch Avant Garde Art

Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays

“I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.”

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Book:The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth

Source: The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth

“David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.”

“The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.”

Ends Views Extremes Dominant Ambiguity Concealed Vagueness

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

“Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.”

Ends Reason Choices Individual Wish Views Patient Ill Meaningful Good Life Hopelessness Culmination Terminally Ill

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.”

Writing Persons Ends Young Song Views Point Of View Disaster

Author:Nick Cave

“The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.”

Ifs Needs Wells Doe Ends Facts Stories Views Moral Wise Style Deserve Method Ill Seeking Historian Truthful Maxims Narration

Book:The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920

Source: The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920

“In your world everything must have a beginning and an end. If it does not, you call it eternal. In my view, there is no such thing as beginning and end - these are all related to time. Timeless being is entirely in the now. Being and not-being alternate and their reality is momentary. The immutable Reality lies beyond space and time.”

Ifs World Doe Ends Reality Lying Time Space Views Eternal Related Timeless Time And Space Momentary Beginnings And Ends

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.”

May Ends Feelings Individual Views Higher Degrees Intention Providence Disposition Benevolent Inner Feelings

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.”

Thinking Years Looks Ends Play Problem Views Cutting Policy Prove Taxes Program Spending Favors The End Of The Day Subtle Borrowed Tax Cuts And At The End Of The Day Borrowed Money

Author:Alan Greenspan

“Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.”

People Men World Children Ends Home Goal Views Doors Limits Men And Women Caring Eras Planes Divided Representing Mining Closed Doors Breadwinner Firefighting

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification. It makes the transactions of the gospel basically juridical. In the Roman view, justification and sanctification are a seamless fabric. It is more than a question of God simply seeing us through a legal scrim of Christ's righteousness. Righteousness actually begins to transform us.”

Ends Christ Views Grace Seeing Doctrine Righteousness Justification Fabric Transactions Sanctification Disservice Seamless

Author:Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

“The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.”

Source: Moon Over Soho

“My character on 'I'm In the Band,' Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That's completely on the other end of the spectrum. There's absolutely nothing like Derek any shape or form. I'm having so much fun playing this egotistical, '80s-era rockstar - everything he does is from the point-of-view of a rockstar.”

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Author:Steve Valentine

“The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.”

People Ends Hard Seems Perfect Views Cutting Trust In God Diamond Brighter Confidence In God Sparkle Greatness Of God Mighty God

Book:Man and the Gospel

Source: Man and the Gospel

“One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was this no longer directed toward people who were to be educated with a view to become fully developed human beings, but to specialists, in other that they might learn how to train other specialists. This is the danger of "Scholasticism," that philosophical tendency which began to be sketched at the end of antiquity, developed in the Middle Ages, and whose presence is still recognizable in philosophy today.”

“A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.”

Men Humans Mean Ends Views Ideals Perfection Aim Instruments Profession Faculty Livelihood Liberal Education

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”

Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

“It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.”

Long Ends Hands Law Process Wealth Views Poverty Weakness Point Of View Giants Replaced Bureaucracy Rule Of Law Wealth And Success

Book:The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Source: The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

“Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.”

“What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.”

Ends Matter Views Comedy

Author:Gore Vidal

“Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.”

Thinking Children Has Beens Ends Done Play Energy Goal Work Views Sake Chess Fulfillment Piano Manifestation Exhibitions Playing Chess

Book:The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

Source: The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

“My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.”

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Author:Stephen Harper

“Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.”

“To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.”

Ends Death Desire Animal Views Philosopher Petty Mourn Coffins Shrinking Adherence

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end our disastrous trade policies. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And we have to fight for pay equity for women.”

People Needs Ends Jobs Fighting Views Pay Millions Policy Program Raises Trade Massive Womens Rights Minimum Equity Men Women Minimum Wage Back To Work Living Wage

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.”

“In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.”

Ends Social Views Responsibility Involved Consequence Concerned Scientist Social Responsibility Recourse

Author:Arthur William Galston

“Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified and systematic, and as an end in itself, the Christian response to postmodernism will be muted by the surrounding culture or will make illicit compromises with the truth-impoverished spirit of the age. The good news is that truth is still truth, that it provides a backbone for witness and ministry in postmodern times, and that God's truth will never fail.”

“We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. His purpose is that I depend on HIM and in HIS power NOW. His end is the process. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God....His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the 'afterwards' of obedience. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present; if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.”

Ifs May Ends Moments Dream Purpose Process Realizing Views Pay Attention Minutes Depends Opposites Obedience Sufficient Our Dreams

Author:Oswald Chambers

“I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.”

Ends Perfect Views Smart Point Of View Villain Hyper

Author:John Lasseter

“Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.”

Should Ends Christian Pain Suffering Views Grief Sun Forever Sorrow Blessing Clouds Righteousness Showers Affliction Woe Pain And Suffering Dismayed

Author:Sadhu Sundar Singh

“Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.”

Ends Poor Views Discovery Welfare Satan Workshops

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength.”

Ifs Want Years Real Ends Seems Lasts Dies Views Race Blood Feet Strength Periods Thousand My Friends Let Me Dare Thousand Years Crawling

Book:Lectures from Colombo to Almora

Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora

“If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.”

Ifs Ends Views Gold Golden Calves Gold Rush

Author:Cornel West

“When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.”

Ends Government Jobs Political Order President Views Military Policy Constitution Tables The End Of The Day Serving Swear Volunteer Oath Political View

Author:Nathaniel Fick

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