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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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• I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history of money, the instrument. But money is also an idea, one that we exchange to survive.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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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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• 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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• A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Purpose, Done

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, p.23, Convergent Books

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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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• Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Matter, Spirit, Action

  "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel".

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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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• Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men

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• ...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

  Henry James

  Paris, Taste, Merit

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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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• People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.

  Amit Abraham

  People, Effort, Should

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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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• Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Littles, Assumption

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community... Art is to decorate people’s houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and it’s supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it... It’s supposed to be as essential as a grocery store... that’s the only way art can function naturally.

  Amiri Baraka

  Art, Clothes, People

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• If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Intellectual, Liberty, Clay

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1929). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll...”

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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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• 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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• The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.

  Antonin Artaud

  Order, Theatre, Passionate

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.122, Grove Press

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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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• Pain is not something to be feared; it is something to be understood.

  Pete Egoscue

  Pain

  "The No. 1 Move to Do for a Pain-Free Body" by Pete Egoscue, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2016.

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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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• In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is-yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos.

  Gore Vidal

  Sky, Religion, Doe

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• Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.

  Michael Shermer

  Events, Causes, Mystery

  Michael Shermer (2011). “The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths”, p.184, Macmillan

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