Quotes 61 till 80 of 118.
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
The Sociological Imagination -
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
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No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
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Nothing would astonish me more, after all these years, except to be understood.
Letters of Ellen Glasgow -
One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
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One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.
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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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People don't want to be understood, I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left.
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971) -
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
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President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.
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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
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Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
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She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
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