#point of view

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view. ↗

— Jacques Lipchitz

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I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing. ↗

— David Lloyd

#bad thing #because #conservative #go #governments

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations. ↗

— Roger Penrose

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It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#convince #creator #fiction #him #history

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

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We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#our #point #point of view #stems #syria

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience. ↗

— George P. Baker

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From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#army #disappear #done #far #gone

Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch! ↗

— Paul Darrow

#also #back #because #character #day