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• May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.

  Cory Booker

  Love, Inspirational, Hurt

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Jan 12, 2016

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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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• To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Mistake, Exercise, Natural

  Susanna Tamaro (2010). “Follow Your Heart”, p.141, Random House

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• The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If pictures cannot be understood without knowing details of the artist's private life, then that is a reason for faulting them; major art, by definition, can stand independent of its maker.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Independent, Knowing

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

  Alistair Begg

  Jesus, Light, Events

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• I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Believe, Add, Littles

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2012). “Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Period (1893-1909)”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I've struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I've had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself. I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love. I don't think we should be judgmental. Lord, I've got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else.

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Dolly Parton Q&A: The Country Legend on 50 Years in Nashville and Why She Supports Her Gay Fans". Interview with Deborah Evans Price, www.billboard.com. October 24, 2014.

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• I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Kindness, Important, I Can

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• I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks - who had the genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked for charity, under the pretense of going à la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Art, Children

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• As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.

  Charles de Foucauld

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot.

  Rick Bragg

  Men, People, Hatred

  Rick Bragg (2010). “Ava's Man”, p.35, Vintage

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• I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Simple, Men, Class

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Teaching, Development

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.28, Orient Blackswan

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• I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Years

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• There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Creative, Deities, Spirit

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.263, JHU Press

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• I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

  Black Elk

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Black Elk Speaks". Book by John Gneisenau Neihardt, 1932.

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• By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

  Pablo Picasso

  Games, Idlers, Amusement

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• It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry on, as well as showing us aspects of ourselves we can't easily see. For listening to the stories of others - not to their precautions or personal commandments - is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.

  Mark Nepo

  Men, Medicine, Names

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• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Children, Book

  St. Mark's Rest preface (1877)

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• Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.

  Herbert Spencer

  Sex, Men, Vocabulary

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “Social Statics: Great Essays”, p.127, VM eBooks

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• The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.

  Walter Benjamin

  Fruit, Seeds

  Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt (1968). “Illuminations”, Schocken Books Incorporated

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• A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.

  Georg Cantor

  Science, Power, Accepted

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• The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Drinking, Coffee, Devil

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

  Susan Sontag

  Ignorance, Disease, States

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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