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#1. Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity. - Author: Marcus Sakey

#2. Anyone who believes in the power of God and the power of Satan can surely not be viewed as a pure monotheist. - Author: Jurgen Moltmann

#3. While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely. - Author: Bill Hicks

#4. The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. - Author: James Madison

#5. A married couple never seem so married as when viewed from the back seat of a motor car, talking quietly together in the front. Polly and Marcus might have been in their bedroom already, so soft and intimate their converse sounded to me, as I sat there alertly mute behind the backs of their heads - Author: John Banville

#6. Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option. - Author: Timothy McVeigh

#7. Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way - Author: Bertrand Russell

#8. Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion ... There is much to be gained from the discovery that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong. - Author: David Mermin

#9. If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online. - Author: Ted Cruz

#10. At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us. - Author: Alistair Begg

#11. I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile. - Author: Christina Hoff Sommers

#12. The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation. - Author: Elliott Abrams

#13. The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's the body of knowledge of this world. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#14. The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values. - Author: Angela Merkel

#15. In spite of the enormous complexity of macroscopic bodies when viewed from an atomistic viewpoint, one knows from everyday experience as well as from precision experiments that macroscopic bodies obey quite definite laws. - Author: Franz Mandl

#16. Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree. - Author: Anna Maria Chavez

#17. I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog. - Author: Joichi Ito

#18. The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the bland, private opulence and public squalor. - Author: Amartya Sen

#19. In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully. - Author: Louise Boyd

#20. Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously ... - Author: Gerard Van Der Leeuw

#21. In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We're ransom objects. - Author: Lynsey Addario

#22. Man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means for arbitrary use by this or that will: he must in all his actions, whether they are directed to himself or to other rational beings, always be viewed at the same time as an end. - Author: Immanuel Kant

#23. For decades, Turkey was widely viewed as a reliable NATO ally: prickly at times, but safely in America's corner. - Author: Stephen Kinzer

#24. The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective. - Author: Michael J. Fox

#25. Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing. - Author: Manuel Puig

#26. I always viewed life as material for a movie. - Author: Noah Baumbach

#27. Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education. - Author: Robert Draper

#28. I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting. - Author: Conor McGregor

#29. a positive imputation of Christ's obedience must be imputed to the believer beyond the forgiveness of sins in order for him to be justified. Justification, therefore, is viewed as a twofold act: forgiveness and the imputation of positive righteousness. - Author: Brian Vickers

#30. I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just crazy. - Author: Hilary Kornblith

#31. Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value. - Author: Sidney Hook

#32. Livvy and me together in an elevator for four hours..and we're good. To some eyes the fact that we're both alive could be viewed as a minor miracle. - Author: Michael D. Beil

#33. Being brave is about the everyday points of bravery that when taken together and viewed from a collective perspective make for an extraordinary life of love. - Author: Andrea T. Goeglein

#34. I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. - Author: Desmond Morris

#35. For when an old man relives his life, he lives it only by dwelling upon his memories; and when wisdom in an old man has outgrown the immediate impressions of life, the past viewed from the quiet of memory is something different from the present in all its bustle. The - Author: Soren Kierkegaard

#36. This determined bias against religion, especially Christianity, is clearly evident when viewed against the religious heritage of American culture as revealed in the Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 452. 1892. - Author: Mathew Staver

#37. Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. - Author: Henry Flynt

#38. That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone 'mainstream.' - Author: Cesar Romero

#39. Standing within a peat bog in Dingle, you can't help wondering what Ireland was like before you and the other primates scrambled up upon its shores. When viewed from space, did it glow like a furry emerald within a sea of blue, the terrestrial equivalent of a massive marine plankton bloom? We - Author: Hope Jahren

#40. He doesn't prefer your kind. There are men with certain appetites that can be fulfilled only by very skilled women, and you ... ' She paused and viewed Madeline critically. 'Something tells me that your repertoire is extremely limited.'
'I don't even have a repertoire,' Madeline said gloomily. - Author: Lisa Kleypas

#41. Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love. - Author: Thomas Jefferson

#42. Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself. - Author: Robert P. George

#43. I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball. - Author: Chris Hayes

#44. I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe. - Author: Sandor Marai

#45. Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies. - Author: Neil MacGregor

#46. Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land. - Author: Leon Krier

#47. Keeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as a stain on our broader record of upholding the highest standards of rule of law. - Author: Audie Cornish

#48. So the audience, at times, lets us know actually what is so special about the show that we can't even necessarily design or predict. Which is great. That's what you want art to be. You want it to be alive and to actually have a life in the way it's viewed. - Author: Steve Zissis

#49. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#50. There is a great advantage when work and economic gain is viewed from the perspective of moral and spiritual significance. - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#51. The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history - Author: Charles Kennedy

#52. New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion as the country's most foreign. - Author: Charles Emmerson

#53. I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish. - Author: Michael Jordan

#54. In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew. - Author: Suzanne Collins

#55. Romans themselves never read silently, but always aloud; they regarded language as speaking and listening, and viewed writing as merely a convenient means of recording communications spoken and heard. - Author: Anonymous

#56. From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation. - Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

#57. The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference. - Author: David Riesman

#58. Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe. - Author: Herbert A. Simon

#59. The way I viewed it, there were lots of very ugly things in London, so, on the occasions when something beautiful with a glossy coat came along and nudged its cold nose into your hand, it seemed churlish not to take a few moments to celebrate the mere fact of its existence. - Author: Tom Cox

#60. The idea is to improve somebody's day. That's how I've always viewed my job. I'm a distraction therapist. I make people's problems go away for just a little bit. - Author: Steve-O

#61. History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed. - Author: Thomas Kuhn

#62. People who foster dependence on illicit drugs such as heroin are regarded among the most unscrupulous pariahs of modern civilisation. In contrast, pushers of licit drugs tend to be viewed as altruistically motivated purveyors of social good. - Author: John Braithwaite

#63. Repose is the most expansive posture you can assume. When you are in Repose, your body is as open and extended as it can be. If the power of a pose is determined by how large it makes your body feel and appear, then Repose should be viewed as the ultimate high-power pose. - Author: Victor Shamas

#64. Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes. - Author: Duane Michals

#65. The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world. - Author: Alexander Von Humboldt

#66. Most of us give little thought to the importance or the meaning of a homeland. Not until we ourselves are foreigners fighting for acceptance, stripped of all ranks and titles and viewed as inferiors, do we miss that privilege. - Author: Oksana Marafioti

#67. It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world. - Author: Claudio Reyna

#68. This condition is humanity at its most raw, its most vulnerable. It is frightening, but viewed in a different way, it is incredibly beautiful. What is left is the essence of self. The inside is the outside. And don't worry. You'll wear it well. - Author: Bruce H. Kramer

#69. Black people were viewed as a contagion. Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage. - Author: Anonymous

#70. The incident does not mean that most Japanese were not appalled by Aum. It does suggest that many young adults viewed their society as so corrupt and hypocritical that any degree of mockery, if not violence against it, was justified. - Author: Robert Jay Lifton

#71. One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena. - Author: Richard M. Weaver

#72. The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world. - Author: Alexander Von Humboldt

#73. When horrible life-shattering things take place, especially in our relationships, these events become central to our experience and most everything else is viewed in their light, God included. You may have your - Author: Gary W. Deddo

#74. The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy. - Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

#75. According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the most viewed profile on Christian Mingle. - Author: Conan O'Brien

#76. As far as now I can tell that most Stephen King fans don't know him well. They have read or viewed few works and their judge is based on them... that's now well knowing a writer! - Author: Deyth Banger

#77. I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest. - Author: Ingrid Betancourt

#78. For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential. - Author: Jacqueline Novogratz

#79. And in most queer communities, regardless of one's sex or identity, people who are more masculine in gender expression are almost always viewed as more valid and attractive than their feminine counterparts. - Author: Julia Serano

#80. Partnering with CNBC will allow Yahoo! Finance to expand its offerings instantly and enhance its position as the most viewed and utilized finance site in the world. - Author: Ross Levinsohn

#81. Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance. - Author: Marguerite Gardiner

#82. Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence. - Author: L. Ron Hubbard

#83. The ideal of a well-stocked mind aiming at excellence in all walks of life has been replaced by the dream of a well-stocked wine cellar, the cellar now being a specially made wine cooler strategically placed in one's house, to be viewed by even the most unobservant visitor. - Author: Dimitris Mita

#84. In humans, smell is often viewed as an aesthetic sense, as a sense capable of eliciting enduring thoughts and memories. Smell, however, is the primal sense. It is the sense that affords most organisms the ability to detect food, predators, and mates. - Author: Richard Axel