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standpoint
«Gene Kranz: Let's look at this thing from a... um, from a standpoint of status. What do we got on the spacecraft that's good?»
«We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
adopt, bemused, craze, crazed, glimpse, selves, spiritual world, standpoint, The Spiritual
«We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.»
Author: Earl Nightingale
| Keywords:
embodiment, epitome, radiate, radiated, radiates, radiating, standpoint, The Embodiment, to become
«To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given»
Author: John Updike
| About:
War,
World
| Keywords:
arrangements, epigram, eunuch, provocative, standpoint, stateless
«Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
bond, connected, countless, dead soul, earnestly, exert, give in, in return, labors, Labor Day, order of the day, outer, received, standpoint, sympathy, well-being
«Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
penalty, shirk, shirked, shirking, standpoint, sterility, willful