Understood Quotes
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...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.
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If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.
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Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
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I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.
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Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.
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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'
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Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people in a way I had never predicted or courted.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
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...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.
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Tilting the head to the side is a submission signal because it exposes the throat and neck and makes the person look smaller and less threatening. Its probable origin is in the baby resting its head on its parent's shoulder or chest, and the submissive, nonthreatening meaning it conveys seems to be unconsciously understood by most people, especially women.
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In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I read these texts, I understood something about human greatness. What I understood from his writings was: What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being.
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Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
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God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And so the soul in which we sail, Unknown by years of thinking, Is deeply felt and understood, The minute that it’s sinking.
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It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.
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Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
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There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.
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To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.
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Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.
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I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.
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The obvious is always least understood.
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
