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Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.
W. Bruce Cameron
Parenting
You
Lie
Sometimes
Father
Difficult
Circumstances
Morally
Him
Child
Any
Any Circumstances
Upright
View
Raise
Honest
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
W. G. Sebald
You
Important
Think
Enough
Teller
Moral
About
Give
Point
Point Of View
Tales
Know
Felt
Makeup
Always
Narrator
Traditional
Information
Which
View
Novel
It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
Wallace Shawn
Life
Me
You
Somebody
Enough
Else
Spend
Seems
Make
How
Years
Behave
Going
Plan
View
Hard
Evening
Based
Incomprehensible
Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.
Walt Mossberg
You
Change
Words
Cloud
Changed
Other
Sync
Jobs
Would
Deliberately
Point
Point Of View
Contacts
Invisible
Stuff
Devices
Concentrated
Steve
Steve Jobs
Very
Efforts
Just
Being
In Other Words
Much
View
Your
Appear
Apple
The view of how America speaks is reflected in our laws. And one of the laws is fair housing. It very clearly prohibits discrimination in the sale and rental of housing in America. It's been a sad fact of American life that the practice in many communities has been quite the opposite.
Walter F. Mondale
Sad
Life
Practice
Our
Has-Been
Laws
Fact
Sad Fact
Clearly
Fair
Housing
How
Opposite
Been
Sale
Reflected
Very
Discrimination
America
American
Quite
American Life
View
Communities
Speaks
Many
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
Walter Gilbert
Science
Community
Valid
Way
Say
Weakness
Only
Tend
Tends
Doing
Scientists
Move
Establishment
Skeptical
Modes
View
It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.
Walter Kaufmann
History
Before
Gone
Philosophic
Systems
Find
One-Sided
Generally
Development
Terms
Also
Reaction
Because
Owe
Established
Different
Against
Hegel
View
Who
Origins
I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of victimization, sometimes by others, sometimes by the self, and sometimes by illness or misfortune, leading, like clockwork, to healing and redemption.
Walter Kirn
Day
Healing
Sometimes
Job
Others
Books
Memoir
Through
Misfortune
Self
Day Job
Almost
Leading
Come
Like
Contemporary
Redemption
Saga
Always
Years
Review
Clockwork
Victimization
View
Illness
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.
Walter Kohn
War
Family
Class
World
Few
Born
Point
Point Of View
Disastrous
Years
End
Middle
Middle Class
After
Which
Vienna
View
World War
World War I
Jewish
From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
Walter Smith
Work
Hope
People
Own
Everybody
Would
My Own
Point
Point Of View
Football
Terrific
Always
Scottish
Realise
Scrutiny
View
Who
Included
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
Warren Bennis
Perspective
Leader
Manager
View
Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
Warren Farrell
World
Perspective
Distorted
Because
Gotten
Feminist
View
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
Washington Irving
Become
Other
Approach
Distance
Thorns
Visible
Those
Charm
Fades
Like
Fairy
Literature
Land
Landscapes
View
Who
Nearer
There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place. I prefer to take a different road that's less crowded, with many forks, where you get a wider view of life. I call it 'the road less travelled'. That's where I want to be.
Wayne Shorter
Life
You
People
Walk
Crowded
Take
Road
Most
Call
Because
Familiar
Get
Front
Where
Different
Forks
Want
Place
Prefer
Certain
View
Less
Many
Travelled
Wider
It strengthens the acting muscles to tap into other parts of yourself. When you can accomplish something that's unexpected, for you as well as the audience, that's really important. It's also very important if you want people considering you for other projects to broaden their view of you.
Wendell Pierce
You
Yourself
People
Important
Other
Broaden
Considering
Projects
Something
Also
Well
Parts
Audience
Tap
Accomplish
Very
Unexpected
Want
Really
View
Acting
Strengthens
Muscles
But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
Wendell Willkie
Democracy
Change
Lover
Our
Must
Consternation
Some
Totalitarian
Had
Prospect
Policies
Trade
Methods
German
Dominated
Any
Form
Might
View
Europe
Present
I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you.
Wendy Davis
Life
Politics
Me
You
Conversation
Woman
People
World
Opportunity
My Life
Think
Those
Critical
About
Life Story
Through
Had
Look
Course
Understand
Truly
Any
Story
Against
Lens
View
Who
Things
I view myself as a multicultural woman who happens to be black.
Wendy Williams
Myself
Woman
Black
Happens
View
Who
Multicultural
I identify entirely with Jane Austen's point of view, on everything.
Whit Stillman
Everything
Entirely
Point
Point Of View
Identify
Austen
Jane
View
I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought I had a clear view that they were antagonistic to human freedom.
Whitfield Diffie
Government
Freedom
Personality
Thought
Stage
Congress
Enjoy
Given
Proposals
Had
Clear
Talking
Antagonistic
Were
Lecturing
Going
Human
Explanation
Human Freedom
View
Certainly
Intellectual work is essentially a lonely process, and if you can find a way of doing something so that you're in company without being disturbed, that, for me, is the critical thing. I often get to feel isolated so often if I'm sitting either where there aren't people or isn't a view.
Whitfield Diffie
Work
Me
You
People
Lonely
Way
Critical
Find
Disturbed
Something
Feel
Without
Isolated
Doing
Intellectual
Get
Sitting
Often
Essentially
Being
Where
Process
Either
View
Company
Thing
I think at the end of the day, the real sick man of Europe is liable to turn out to be France, not Greece, not Portugal, not Spain, not Italy. The reason is France is very uncompetitive to begin with on a global scale, and the measures that Hollande has been putting in have been very, very negative from the point of view of economic growth.
Wilbur Ross
Day
Man
End Of The Day
Negative
Think
Liable
Sick
Sick Man
France
Scale
Out
Has-Been
Economic
Point
Point Of View
Economic Growth
Putting
Global
Real
Been
Italy
End
Very
Greece
Begin
Spain
Turn
View
Reason
Measures
Europe
Growth
Portugal
When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to - it leaves nothing.
Wilfred Owen
Financial
Impossible
Nothing
Those
Point
Point Of View
Feel
Leaves
Begin
List
Which
Then
View
Professions
Eliminate
The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.
Wilhelm Ostwald
Change
Water
Physical
Composition
Properties
Fact
Involved
Alter
Without
Chemical
Substance
Form
Formal
Process
View
Hence
Specific
The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.
Wilhelm Ostwald
Nature
Creation
Rate
Rational
Absolutely
Development
Thus
Concept
Reaction
Chemical
Dependent
View
I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.
Will Carleton
Time
Duty
Hell
Tried
Steered
Part
Clear
True
Well
Heaven
Straight
View
Watched
Kept
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