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  • Author Talcott Parsons
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    It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

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  • Author Sydney Pollack
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    The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

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  • Author Sydney Pollack
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    My films ought to be judged on whether they're entertaining or good as films, but not on the political view necessarily. I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push.

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  • Author Sydney Pollack
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    Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done.

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.

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  • Author Thomas Paine
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    In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never be worth their while to go to war for profit's sake. If they are made war upon, their country invaded, or their existence at stake, it is their duty to defend and preserve themselves, but in every other light, and from every other cause, is war inglorious and detestable.

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