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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. (Milan Kundera)
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. View quote
Edward Abbey
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it. View quote
M. R. James
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator. View quote
Manuel Puig
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose. View quote
Mark Strand
It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view. View quote
Sabrina Jeffries
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph. View quote
William Boyd
To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement. View quote
Glenn Close
People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan. (Dave Ramsey)
It's stupid to have a simple-minded view. View quote
Jeremy Paxman
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it. View quote
Chris Pine
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. View quote
Bob Geldof
The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. View quote
Sharon Olds
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative. View quote
Annie Leibovitz
Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them. View quote
Carlisle Floyd
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. (Floyd Abrams)
It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party. View quote
Francis Maude
Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation. View quote
Harry Seidler
I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger. View quote
Jamie Chung
Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz
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