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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher

Down, Top, Hill

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Peace, Truth

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Moving, Short

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Dalai Lama

Education, Brain, Attention

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
Dalai Lama

Hope, Struggle, Die

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama

Power, Belief, Nonsense

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson

War, Greatest, Mankind

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve Jobs

Good, Country, Place

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Her, She

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs

Life, Worth, Lucky

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Henry David Thoreau

God, Liberal, Presented

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford

Success, Person, Secret

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs

Smart, Sense, Optimistic

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
Steve Jobs

Time, Technology, Sorry

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
George Washington

Good, Country, Public

For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view.
Charlie Sheen

Lonely, Two, Around

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
Erma Bombeck

Time, Children, Put

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
Will Smith

Women, Men, Children

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Tony Robbins

Whether, Act, Truly

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward Abbey

Amazing, May, Dangerous

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!
Mitt Romney

Money, Friends, Free

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Barack Obama

Great, Cannot, Whole

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.
Mitt Romney

Marriage, Time, Woman

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
Epictetus

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing, Point, Depends

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
Stephen Covey

Emotional, Person, Giving

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Lose, Dignity, Closer

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
Alfred Adler

Simple, Hard, Person

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.
Mitt Romney

Away, Progress, Hand

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley

Great, Truth, Silence

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