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Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

It's in the reaction of others that perfection is found in the flawed.

Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.