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• The time has come to recover the valiant courage of our forefathers, who understood that faith and freedom are inseparable, and that they are worth fighting for.

  Roy Moore

  Fighting, Valiant, Inseparable

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• Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, Suggestions, Indication

  Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys (1979). “Joseph Beuys”

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• In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.

  Tom Ford

  Honesty, Adults, Ends

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• Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Home, Mean

  "Drain the swamp and there will be no more mosquitoes" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2002.

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• The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign and instrument of intimate union with God, of the unity of the whole of mankind, and of the personal duty to adhere more closely to her.

  Pope John Paul II

  Light, Faithful, Unity

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• To demarcate [words in way that changes the meaning] is simply to speak a different language than everyone else. And I do not accept semantic games like that. [...] We need to use words as they are actually used and understood. We can correct errors and inconsistencies and make distinctions. But we can't try to foist an alien language on people.

  Richard Carrier

  Errors, Games, People

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• By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.

  Karl Marx

  Fashion, Aristocracy, Banking

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.334, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The holy mystery of the day of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost, is to be understood in the following manner: the spirit of man must be completed and perfected by the Holy Spirit, that is, it must be sanctified, illuminated, and divinized by the Holy Spirit. This holy mystery is realized continually in the Church of Christ and because of this the Church is really a continuous Pentecost.... From Holy Pentecost, the day of the Holy Spirit, every God-like soul in the Church of Christ is an incombustible bush which continuously burns and is inflamed with God and has a fiery tongue within it.

  Justin Popovic

  Men, Soul, Church

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• Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and by people outside Africa.

  Vieux Farka Toure

  People, Mali, Music Is

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• I've been on a major label for 14 years. I've always wanted as many people as possible to hear my music, and it definitely made sense for the majority of my career to be on a major label, on a distribution level, to be in people's faces and be out there, and have access to major labels' incredible machine, even though they have not understood or haven't been invested in what I was doing.

  DJ Shadow

  Years, Careers, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.

  Umberto Eco

  Done, Territory, Century

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.

  Amy Koppelman

  Misunderstood, Has Beens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's about the design of how you talk to another human being; it's the design of speech; it's the design of everything we do. We need to be better at listening, and we need to aim more directly at understanding and being understood.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Essence, Design, Understanding

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• The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Reality, Infinite, Concepts

  "Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science". Book by Werner Heisenberg, 1958.

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• The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

  B. Joseph Pine II

  Admission, Compelling, Versus

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• Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to “good as new” and instead employ a “better than new” aesthetic. They understood that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value. Because after mending, the bowl's unique fault lines were transformed into little rivers of gold that post repair were even more special because the bowl could then resemble nothing but itself.

  Teresita Fernandez

  Unique, Rivers, Broken

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• It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

  Christian Kane

  Doe, Actors, Singers

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• The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Country, Real, Differences

  Jeremy Griffith (2016). “Freedom: The End of the Human Condition”, p.638, WTM Publishing and Communications

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• You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.

  Emily Rios

  Teacher, Growing Up, Teaching

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• I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone.

  Sergio Troncoso

  Good Day, Bad Day, Writing

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• We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Miracle, Lasts, Mysterious

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Miscellany”

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• Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood

  KRS-One

  Teacher, Kings, World

  Song: My Philosophy

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• When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mother, Memories, Commitment

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• In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.

  Tara Brach

  Compassion, Collectives

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• There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.

  Sean Penn

  Loyalty, Forgiving, Awful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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