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• What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Unique, Simple, Justice

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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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• Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, Hope, Islamic

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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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• When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense
  is understood NOT as a failure of civil society,
  to be mourned,
  but as an act of citizenship,
  to be vaunted,
  there is little civilian life left.

  Jill Lepore

  Self, Defense, Littles

  "Battleground America". www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Eternity, Photograph, Instant

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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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• The meaning of the directions in kata is not well understood, and frequently mistakes are made in the interpretation of kata movements. In extreme cases, it is sometimes heard that "this kata moves in 8 directions so it is designed for fighting 8 opponents" or some such nonsense.

  Kenwa Mabuni

  Mistake, Moving, Fighting

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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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• The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. 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

  Art, Games, People

  Attributed in Wash. Post, 30 Nov. 1952. The Post article is quoting an article in Quick Magazine from the summer of 1951. According to a letter by William S. Rubin in the New York Times, 5 Jan. 1969, this is "a trumpery originated in Il Libro Nero published by Giovanni Papini in 1951."

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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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• 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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