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Understanding Quotes (page 53)

But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over. Carl Sagan
Oswald Chambers quote: "The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand..."
The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L Oswald Chambers
Jodi Picoult quote: "You have to understand what you’re missing before you can..."
You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss. Jodi Picoult
Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all. Frederick Buechner
And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth. Khalil Gibran
Dan Brown quote: "Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand."
Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand. Dan Brown
I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginnings, it seems, a religion of great quarrels and wars, and it wooed the power of temporal authorities, and made them part of itself in the hope of resolving through sheer force its many arguments. Anne Rice
Ann Patchett quote: "It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word..."
It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying. Ann Patchett
As for the military advantage of such a bombardment, I simply cannot grasp it. I have seen housewives disemboweled, children mutilated; I have seen the old itinerant market crone sponge from her treasure the brains with which they were spattered. I have seen a janitor's wife come out of her cellar and douse the sullied pavement with a bucket of water, and I am still unable to understand what part these humble slaughterhouse accidents play in warfare. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do. George W. Bush
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower... Joseph Heller
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born. Paulo Coelho
WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but also that which is apprehended by the soul, the conviction that the object [of belief] is exactly as it is apprehended. If, as regards real or supposed truths, you content yourself with giving utterance to them in words, without apprehending them or believing in them, especially if you do not seek real truth, you have a very easy task as, in fact, you will find... Maimonides
What mancan you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he isdying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed, Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Burton Rascoe quote: "What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is..."
What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. Burton Rascoe

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