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• What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.

  Nathan Seiberg

  Science, Ideas, Important

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• The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Use, Language

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Husband, Latin

  Arnold Edwin Needham, Sarah Fielding (1943). “The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding”

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• We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus' hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking. The destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 67-70 seems to many people to fulfill much of what we have traditionally understood as hell.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Fire, People

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• When some people rejoin with “All Lives Matter” they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue. It is true that all lives matter, but it is equally true that not all lives are understood to matter which is precisely why it is most important to name the lives that have not mattered, and are struggling to matter in the way they deserve.

  Judith Butler

  Struggle, Names, People

  "What’s Wrong With ‘All Lives Matter’?". Interview with George Yancy, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 12, 2015.

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• O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.

  Al-Ghazali

  Book, Men, Hands

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• I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.

  Michael Ian Black

  Men, Guy, Expected

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights movement understood very clearly, and stated very beautifully, that it was a question of humanism, not a sectarian movement at all.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Kings, Rights, Drs

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.49, Melville House

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• I make comedies and I always try... I don't try but I allow to have at least 5% of the jokes or have some jokes that I know will be understood by only about 5% of the audience. It's that guy in the corner who gets it and laughs. But he has to have his jokes too. That's part of my audience. Part of my audience is the people who will only get certain things.

  Alexander Payne

  People, Laughing, Guy

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for me derives from structural formulae. When reading chemical journals, I look for formulae first.

  Donald Cram

  Reading, Firsts, Looks

  Donald J. Cram (1990). “From Design to Discover :”, Amer Chemical Society

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• I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Circles, Shapes

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Thinking, Order

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• A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.

  Mark Coleman

  Art, Teenager, Rocks

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• I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.

  Mason Cooley

  Want, Ordinary, Ordinariness

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• I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly understood as the shining of the sun is visible at noonday, and that is, implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Children, Believe, Home

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• A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.

  Henry Adams

  Government, People, Political

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy”, p.18, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.

  Edward Witten

  Strong, Cousin, Progress

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• This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200 years. From 776 B.C. to 393 A.D., your fellow Olympians laid down their arms to take part in these games. They understood there was more honor in out running a man than in killing him. I hope the competition will resume, and if it does, you must not think that running or throwing or jumping is frivelous. The games were once your fellow Olympians answer to war – competition, not conquest. Now, they must be your answer.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, War, Athlete

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• Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

  David Dreman

  Psychology, Important, Factors

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• What I suddenly understood was that a thank-you note isn't the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children think it is, a kind of minimum tribute or toll, but an opportunity to count your blessings. And gratitude isn't what you give in exchange for something; it's what you feel when you are blessed--blessed to have family and friends who care about you, and who want to see you happy. Hence the joy from thanking.

  Will Schwalbe

  Gratitude, Children, Blessed

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• The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.

  Warsan Shire

  Beautiful, Morning, Hands

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• If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks---eternal marks.

  Beth Moore

  Earth, Glory, Mark

  Beth Moore (2013). “Whispers of Hope: 10 Weeks of Devotional Prayer”, p.11, B&H Publishing Group

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• Jesus not only understood Himself to be the promised Messiah, He also says and does things throughout the Gospels that make it clear He understood Himself to be God incarnate.

  Keith Mathison

  Jesus, Doe, Clear

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• Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.

  Richard Bach

  Team, Skills, Discipline

  "Who is Sailing Your Ship?" by Dennis Merritt Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• Miracles are everywhere to be found when the priesthood is understood, its power is honored and used properly, and faith is exerted.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Miracle, Used, Found

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