Understanding Quotes
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At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
Norman Maclean
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Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.
Leighton Meester
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Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.
Sebastian Junger
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... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case.
Richard Feynman
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Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.
Richard Feynman
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We are enveloped in peace, whether or not we feel ourselves to be at peace. By that I mean the peace that passes understanding is not a subjective sensation of peace; if we are in Christ, we are in peace even when we feel no peace.
Brennan Manning
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A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
Ajahn Chah
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Our religious understanding and beliefs should evolve just like everything else.
James Cook
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In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.
Todd Solondz
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Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
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To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.
Richard Feynman
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We need to do a better job of understanding what the world is.
Cameron Esposito
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When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.
Evan Osnos
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You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.
Paul Rand
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If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are ready for the new millennium. We're way behind compared to countries in Europe. If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.
Sandra Cisneros
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Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me.
Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
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An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.
Michael Behe
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Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.
Michael Arrington
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Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.
Samuel Rogers
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When we begin to understand the magnitude of the Messiah's sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to be of more importance or to approach His significance in our lives. "For most of us, this understanding does not come all at once and likely will not be fully complete during our mortal sojourn. We do know, however, that as we learn line upon line, our appreciation for the Savior's contributions will increase and our knowledge and assurance of their truthfulness will grow.
Cecil O. Samuelson
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For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
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For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.
Anita DeFrantz