Quotes with standpoint

  • 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.

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  • Bill Gross Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Alfred Rosenberg I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Barbara Boxer If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Boomer Esiason Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Boris Sidis Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.
    The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Ben Horowitz The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • John Updike 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.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Ronald Laing 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.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Earl Nightingale 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.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Bob Cousy You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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