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Understand Quotes (page 142)

Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time didn't mean anything nothing had form but I was still me, you know? And I was warm and I was loved and I was finished. Complete. I don't understand about theology or dimensions, or any of it, really but I think I was in heaven. And now I'm not. I was torn out of there. Pulled out by my friends. Everything here is hard, and bright, and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch this is... Joss Whedon
Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from. Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient. Malcolm X
To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells. Arundhati Roy
George Orwell quote: "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and..."
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. George Orwell
When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon. P. G. Wodehouse
Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I'm so stupid. Forget I just said that. "He needs a Band-Aid," I said. A look passed between me and Fang, full of suppressed humor, relief, understanding, love? Forget I said that too. I don't know what's wrong with me. James Patterson
Michel Foucault quote: "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting."
Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting. Michel Foucault
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand..."
Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender Elizabeth Gilbert
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done? Barbara Ehrenreich
You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom. Leo Tolstoy
My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't understand the words to their songs, she found the music almost unbearably sad. After the concert, Kate approached the lead Mongolian singer and asked, "What are your songs about?" He replied, "Our songs are about the same things that everyone else's songs are about: lost love, and somebody stole your fastest horse. Elizabeth Gilbert
Stevie Wonder quote: "Music is a world within itself, with a language we all..."
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. Stevie Wonder
Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep. And this you may do by inveighing against the laws and lawgivers, and yet at the same time observing these laws with the weak, lest they be offended, until they shall themselves recognize the tyranny, and understand their own liberty. Martin Luther
« She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A romance novel was just a book, while the Internet was the Internet. The Internet would crack these nuts for sure.» Bruce Sterling
George Steiner quote: "when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies..."
when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. George Steiner

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