Isaiah Berlin Quotes
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
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I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
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I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.
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The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
