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sight differences may
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. Richard Perle
sight ties understanding
... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh. Rebecca West
sight earth pages
The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future William Jennings Bryan
sight mind age
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries. Woodrow Wilson
sight perspective shifting
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight. William James
sight mind growing
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.
sight rights gentleman
The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman. William Gilmore Simms
sight vision lost
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight. Robin Green
sight mind body
Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave. Robert Schumann
views may mass
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. Robert Collier
views people trying
When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view. Rob Zombie
views arms sometimes
Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath. Richard Paul Evans
views common-sense religion
[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd. Richard P. Feynman
views special kind
We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it. Richard Dawkins
views different definitions
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term. Richard Whately
views your-side people
We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good? Richelle Mead
views toes novelists
Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes. Truman Capote
views people black
I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts. Trisha Goddard
humanity people spiritual
Humanity is in spiritual ignorance; people see things that do not exist. Atharva Veda
humanity different would-be
Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.
humanity and-love economic
Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love. Russell Brand
humanity canvas playstation
[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature. Trip Hawkins
humanity life-is humour
Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can. Sarah Kane
humanity wages individual
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others. Robert Owen
humanity would-be needs
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery. Saint Basil
humanity mind capacity
Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same. Yanni
humanity matter world
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where. Wole Soyinka