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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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• The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Thinking, Way, Sociology

  Pierre Bourdieu, John B. Thompson (1991). “Language and Symbolic Power”, p.207, Harvard University Press

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• Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has yet to be understood, however, is the manner in which Egypt inherited its cultural elements from the lands of the North-West. This fact is not known today because of the threat it poses to Rome and London, the Vatican and Crown, and to all those who have profited from the suppression of knowledge.

  Michael Tsarion

  Egypt, Rome, Land

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• Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

  Barack Obama

  Justice, Recognition, Grows

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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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• Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

  Susan Blackmore

  Design, Mind, Body

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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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• Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Men, Missing, Favors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In some ways I'm oddly traditional, I've been a serial monogamist since I was 12. I've always tried to work hard and get good grades and be a good person, but I feel like I've also always had a strange defiance of authority or the status quo, I've never understood why things always have to be just one way.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Hard Work, Way, Strange

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The message I understood was this: Just don't get caught!

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Messages, Caught

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• When I was 13, I saw him [Elvis] perform live and I suddenly understood what sex is all about. I was screaming at the top of my lungs.

  Raquel Welch

  Sex, Saws, Lungs

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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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• Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.

  Susan Meissner

  Children, Sky, Knowing

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• In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening preparations and observed a moment: One of the cleaners stopped, puzzled, in front of the Picassos. I think that this is an image that can be universally understood, but with a grain of salt. I never chose this image in edits before because it seemed to me that it felt posed-the composition was a little too perfect. But, believe me, it was a lucky moment.

  Micha Bar-Am

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.

  Dimitar Sasselov

  Rocks, Water, Needs

  "How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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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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• Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or rewards the undiscriminating, is worth very little and has only callow, childish pleasures.

  Richard Davenport-Hines

  People, Doe, Culture

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• Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.

  Delores Phillips

  Mother, Godly, Body

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• Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.

  Molly Antopol

  Reading, Writing, What Matters

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

  Tara Brach

  Compassion, Collectives

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• I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.

  Barack Obama

  Race, White, America

  Source: www.politico.com

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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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