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Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Mission [is] understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It [is] thus put in the context of the Trinity,… — David Bosch Copy Share Image
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice... — China Mieville Copy Share Image
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My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune. — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
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The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
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I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way. — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
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This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It must be understood that there are no nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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Once I understood what was going to happen - that I was going to prison for life - my end goal was… — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
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