Understanding Quotes
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Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
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We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.
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The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.
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Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience.
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Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.
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Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
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Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.
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Understanding what the framers meant can help us. But alone it cannot be enough.
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There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.
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For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.
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This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
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Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
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I do not know where this mania for understanding oneself has come from, he said, but it clearly exerts a powerful hold on people.
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As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they're in the kitchen cooking. So it's understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.
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The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
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As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.
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Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
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May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
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Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.
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In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.
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Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.
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The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
