Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Quotes to Explore
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
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If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
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Europe, the U.S., and their allies can defeat the terrorists of Islamic State, or ISIS. The first step is making the decision to fight back. The next step is understanding that drones and standoff missiles will not be enough. Ground troops will be needed.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
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What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
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Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
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We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and sinners. This judgment, which separated knowledge of man from self-knowledge, was as nothing in God’s eyes. The Jew did not have a better understanding because he was able to judge the heathen. In the sphere of abstract morality this could possibly be said, but this is not Biblical morality - O man, who judgest others!
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Not everyone is as nice as us.
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I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.
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Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
