We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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YEHUDA BERG We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own po... WILLIAM LAW I would guess about half of us are here through no fault of our own. Yet they want to treat us like ... LEE NOBLE Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the c... EAVAN BOLAND Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb RICHARD DUE We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our l... DAVID OYELOWO We live in a culture of secrecy, where hiding and lying are accepted as natural, even though we don�... PENNEY PEIRCE I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own. BAZ LUHRMANN Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view. AVA DUVERNAY Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonder... LEWIS THOMAS All people are, at heart, egocentric. 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