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In Hawaii, we greet friends, loved ones or strangers with Aloha, which means love. Aloha is the key word to the universal… — Duke Kahanamoku Copy Share Image
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There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Natural understanding can take the place of almost every degree of culture, but no culture can take the place of natural understanding.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Perception, after all, is not simply a matter of what you believe about yourself, it all encompasses what others think about you,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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All people, all cultures have some sort of racism. It's a cultural thing and I think that part of the issue is… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
Preaching is the primary means of growth for the local church. There is a great deal of debate about this in our… — James Montgomery Boice Copy Share Image
Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think producing is first about understanding and finding people who understand it in the same way throughout the crew and everybody… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
When I was 26, I founded Peaceworks as a food company that brought together Israelis, Arabs, Turks, and others in conflict regions… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
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A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we… — Bill Kurtis Copy Share Image
Try to understand why it is happening, from where it is coming, where the roots are, how it happens, how it functions,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Do you believe in miracles? Well, you should. In fact, life itself is a big miracle. There are so many things that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are two life-forces in the world I know: Jewish and gentile, ours and yours...I do not believe that this primal difference… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
“381 On the question of being understandable.— One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You hear blacks are good in sports and good singers. But you don't hear about black lawyers or black politicians. I learned… — Rob Pilatus Copy Share Image
The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider… — Cecil O. Samuelson Copy Share Image
The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oh, that kiss gave me plenty of understanding.” He moved close and lowered his voice to a growl. The air heated between… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes. And these Taliban -… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
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