Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
Aunt Grace was leaving.... Looking after her a moment, Laura had another feeling of tenderness toward her. How we live our lives side by side with those whom we never know or understand.

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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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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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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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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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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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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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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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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
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You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
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Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?
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Somehow, white South Africans believed that black labor was like a lawn mower: you could have it around, and when you didn’t need it, you could hide it in its little shed where it would be good and quiet-until you needed it again.
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It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing to give. Nothin' but time, that is. And I been doin' time my whole life, one way or the other.
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Aunt Grace was leaving.... Looking after her a moment, Laura had another feeling of tenderness toward her. How we live our lives side by side with those whom we never know or understand.