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Wokeness, for what it's worth, is a buzzword that a lot of people are not truly understanding the depth of. I think… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
We need a leader who has a sense of balance, an understanding of the ebb and flow of history and a sense… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are, somewhere, the deep impulse which generates semiosis, And yet we recognize ourselves only as semiosis in progress, signifying systems… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Career advice: never give up. Never lose faith. Never lose hope. Never put God in a box! Because the plans He has… — Cynthia Garrett Copy Share Image
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“[W]e are changed by what we read. Close that book, and you are not the same person anymore. Because of what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Oh my dear! Peace is something we all create together! No one person gets to take credit for it! That's the whole… — Ron Regé Jr Copy Share Image
The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
While the president is to nominate that individual [to Supreme Court], we in the Senate must provide our advice and consent. This… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
“There are some things that are neither right nor wrong. You can’t have rules laid down for. Would you understand that?” “Yes,”… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“A favor is a friendly, gracious, kind, generous or obliging act that is freely granted. It is offered and not solicited. A… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose… — Val Plumwood Copy Share Image
It's very white in Guernsey, not racist, but there's not a lot of understanding about different cultures there. So I grew up… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
According to Ayurvedic principles, by understanding oneself, by identifying one's own constitution, and by recognizing sources of doshic aggravation, one can not… — Vasant Lad Copy Share Image
“The future of the next generation relies on astronomers obtaining a full understanding of the rapidly changing human environmental conditions and the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
“Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
I want to play so many different characters. I want to, like, understand so many different people, and psychoanalysis, everything. I love… — Sylvia Hoeks Copy Share Image
It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“It is not for you to say - you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are… — Anthony of Sourozh Copy Share Image
To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image