Understanding Quotes - Page 12

• You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

  Ivan van Sertima

  Native American, Discovery, People

  Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, John Henrik Clarke “Dr. Ivan Van Sertima- 8 DVD video lectures: 8 DVDs, Best viewed on wifi on phones or tablets. iPads or Android (use google Play Book app to view. Gmail account required)”, Clemson Brown

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• We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.

  Aaron Antonovsky

  Life, Change, Meaningful

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• To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections

  Val Plumwood

  Relationship, Sympathy, Nature

  Val Plumwood (2005). “Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason”, p.9, Routledge

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• A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Business, Order, Accomplishment

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• Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Discovery, People

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 22, 2015

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• As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Believe, Stupid People

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jul 06, 2012

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• As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal of some to understand, or outright refusal to learn about other human beings is based on fear. Fear is what keeps people apart.

  Piri Thomas

  Fear, Struggle, Communication

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.

  Andreas Gursky

  Photography, Our World, Trying

  "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.

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• I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.

  Christine Caine

  Life, Being Real, Fruit

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Mar 31, 2015

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• The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

  C. Wright Mills

  Knowledge, Frustration, Political Will

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.184, Univ of California Press

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• Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Math, Science

  Foreword to the book "A=B" by Marko Petkovsek, Herbert S. Wilf and Doron Zeilberger, 1996.

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• If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

  Willy Brandt

  Germany, Demand, Buying

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• Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes - in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming.

  Mark Steyn

  New York, Business, California

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• Swallow my words. Taste my thoughts. And if it's too nasty, spit it back at me!.

  Lil Wayne

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Swallowing

  FaceBook post by Lil Wayne from May 13, 2012

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• You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Change, Hope

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• You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Hurt, Pain, Soul

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• We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

  Brian Cox

  Life, Mean, Science

  "Wonders of the Universe (Messengers)". Documentary, March 27, 2011.

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• If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

  Stephen Fry

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sympathy

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• We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

  Adam Phillips

  Mother, Psychology, Wish

  "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life".

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• How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

  David Foster Wallace

  Being Weird, Odd, Weirdness

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• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Courage, Honesty

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• If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

  Lyall Watson

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

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• The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

  J. William Fulbright

  Sympathy, Education, Hope

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• I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't get you

  Drake

  Relationship, Break Up, Girl

  Song: Shot for Me, Album: Take Care, 2011

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