Understanding Quotes - Page 24

• Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

  Charles Koch

  Trying, Fiber, Civility

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher. There wasn't a great understanding of gender discrimination. People knew that race discrimination was an odious thing, but there were many who thought that all the gender-based differentials in the law operated benignly in women's favor. So my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan's words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Teacher, Race, Law

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets scientists worried. And when public officials talk about alternative facts, people who have devoted their careers to trying to uncover facts are dismayed.

  Rush D. Holt, Jr.

  Appreciation, Careers, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The thing that changes your professional life, your capabilities, your learning, your understanding, your opportunity flow, your ability to make things happen, is the center relationships you have with powerful and effective people around you in the industry, in the activity that you want to be doing.

  Reid Hoffman

  Powerful, Opportunity, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think the most special thing about the chemistry is the intimate understanding of how to make each other laugh. At the end of the day, in order to portray a genuine relationship on camera, that's one of the most fundamental things that has to occur.

  Drake Doremus

  Thinking, Order, Laughing

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Donald Trump represents not the lobbyists, not the elected officials, not the establishment types. These are people that have nothing to do with government; they don't work there; they have much taken from them by government. They get very, very little of it back. And that is, I think, a good point in understanding Trump's popularity and who it is that's supporting him.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Men, Self

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I am deeply gladdened that 1993 has been delcared the International Year of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations. It is the first year we have had in five hundred years. This is thanks to the struggle of many untitled, unnamed indigenous brothers who, without understanding international law, patiently walked the corridors asking for some time. Thanks to them this international year has been declared.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Brother, Struggle, Years

  Source: www.indians.org

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• We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. That understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Cells, Years

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.

  Lindsey Graham

  Thinking, Challenges, Sin

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are desperately in need of the kind of smart diplomacy that has worked for America in the past. If you use force, it should be a last resort. And it needs to be used with full understanding of the consequences.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Past, America

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Political, Culture, Compromise

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think the importance of it has to be shaken into people's understanding and determination.

  Amartya Sen

  Determination, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.

  David Eagleman

  Reality, Small Rooms, Knowing

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.209, Vintage

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• In our current understanding of science, we can't find the physical gap in which to slip free will - the uncaused causer - because there seems to be no part of the machinery that does not follow in a causal relationship from the other parts.

  David Eagleman

  Doe, Gaps, Free Will

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.175, Vintage

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• Orwell says straight, look, in England what comes out in a free country is not very different from this totalitarian monster that I'm describing in the book. It's more or less the same. How come in a free country? He has two sentences, which are pretty accurate. One, he says, the press is owned by wealthy men who have every reason not to want certain ideas to be expressed. And second - and I think this is much more important - a good education instills in you the intuitive understanding that there are certain things it just wouldn't do to say.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Book, Men

  Source: progressive.org

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• Whether or not you're writing fiction or you're making sculptures. You're trying to create a space. You're trying to make something where your own epiphanies and your own desires and your own understanding of the world can reveal itself.

  Denison Witmer

  Writing, Space, Desire

  Source: sojo.net

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• There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Long, Moments, Individual

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is the Truth for all. And hence, if there is understanding rather than blind following, people will not create a religion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  People, Giving, Blind

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• A worldview is simply someone's relatively organized understanding of what the world is actually like.

  Greg Koukl

  World, Worldview, Organized

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In order to understand the Truth, I must let the shadow go, and not concern myself with it, but with the understanding of the Eternal.' So he does not concern himself with the physical. He is more concerned with the quality of mind and heart. Hence there is disease, there is disorder, and there is chaos and neglect and the gradual running down of the physical.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Running, Heart, Order

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Deep Understanding, Needs

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• I'm not an American as you know, and to deliver "Jackie" today in the United States and understanding the role of women in society is changing and I hope it just gets better and better - and also in cinema. There's very few interesting roles today for women in cinema. It's getting better and stronger and, and I'm proud to be part of that.

  Pablo Larrain

  Interesting, Get Better, Stronger

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Hands, Generations, Peers

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• There are some audiences who are uncomfortable with the ambiguity, though. They want a film to chew their food for them, they want Hollywood endings that tie everything together in the end and answer all of the questions. They are usually people on one extreme of the political spectrum or other and they haven't been happy because the film is not polemical enough on their side. They aren't usually people who aren't interested in understanding points of view that they disagree with - they just want to attack their opponents - and I'm ok with them not liking the film.

  Marshall Curry

  People, Political, Together

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