Understanding Quotes - Page 29

• There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

  Richard Dawkins

  Source: inters.org

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• I wish that in the course of my visit to places the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] calls home, all of a sudden, we would reach a clear understanding on how we can resolve the matters. We will be very glad if that happens. Are there any chances? Perhaps.

  Vladimir Putin

  Home, Wish, Matter

  Source: www.rt.com

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• We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.

  Judith Butler

  Class, Political, Needs

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put someone in the ground, we bury them or we burn them, and then we're supposed to just move on and kind of get over it.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Moving, Way, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe in the 12 Jewels and try to provide my childrem with them. That is Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace and Happiness.

  RZA

  Believe, Justice Equality, Jewels

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• It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.

  Bryan Fuller

  Actors, Pages, Blank

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I like to say understanding is the power.

  Byron Katie

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Enough, Ifs

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

  Noam Chomsky

  Struggle, Winning, Analysis

  Source: www.iww.org

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• [Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all of his linguistic characteristics, and so on. We cannot determine what is historical and what isn't. As literary critics, we would understand the importance of this for understanding life, destiny. But the historical question must be left with a question mark.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Sacrifice, Destiny, Historical

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Important element is deeply understanding our curriculum. Most teachers know what they're going to cover this week or this term. Few of us can specify precisely what students should know, understand, and be able to do as a result of any particular learning experience or set of learning experiences. Without that specificity, alignment between content, assessment, and instruction is weak.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Assessment, Important

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was exposed to more reports than average individuals, who had a better understanding of the bigger picture - was that the post - World War II, post - Cold War directions of societies were either broadly authoritarian or [broadly] liberal or libertarian.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Average, Community

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

  Madeleine Albright

  People, Political, Care

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Order, Enough

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• I set myself a rule before I actually write a tune to the lyrics, and the rule is that I've got to take the lyrics on to a level of understanding before I can actually write music to them. What I'm doing is interpretation. If I don't write the lyrics, therefore I must interpret them to the best of my ability. So my rule is that I must understand it, but I don't necessarily have to accept.

  James Dean Bradfield

  Writing, Tunes, Levels

  Source: www.thisisyesterday.com

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• Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Dots, Luther

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.

  Frank Gehry

  Kids, Thinking, Fire

  Source: blog.americansforthearts.org

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• This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.

  Al Sharpton

  Agreement, Community, Police

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In the end, I would love [the audience] to be more open to the understanding of different types of personalities, you know?

  Miguel Angel Silvestre

  Personality, Different, Ends

  Source: www.towleroad.com

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• I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.

  Miguel

  Growing Up, Thinking, Diversity

  Source: us.napster.com

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• [Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.

  Elie Wiesel

  Two, Years, People

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• If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens to our bodies, sexism can be reversed. It's the understanding that it's not inevitable. I think that is crucial.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Thinking, Body

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• "Am I my brother's keeper?" There you have the whole Biblical understanding that you are your brother's keeper. You also have a whole other understanding in which you are not your brother's keeper. And I've heard some extremely bright people take this position.

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, Biblical, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're at the beginning of a long period of adjustment that does not have a clear-cut terminal point, and in which our wisdom and sophistication and understanding has to be one of the key elements.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Cutting, Keys, Long

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• You have to be able to sustain life. So moments are going to be lighter, but moments are also going to be heavier. I think just the understanding that life goes in a million different directions, and hopefully, if you find excitement by what these characters are experiencing and what they're living through, and you're impacted by them as human beings, then that's the sustainability of the show [This is Us].

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Character, Thinking, Able

  Source: www.assignmentx.com

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