Understanding Quotes

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One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out… — Johan Galtung
Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable… — William Harvey
Individuals for whom no orthodox cure is available surely are entitled to select a health care approach.....This right (is) specifically within,,,the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th,… — Luther L. Bohanon
Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning. — Richard Neal
High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking… — Dennis C. Blair
You can't live principals you can't understand. — Stephen Covey
Give it an understanding, but no tongue. — William Shakespeare
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there. — William Faulkner
When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores. — Wilford Woodruff
You can not hear what you do not understand. — W. Edwards Deming
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the… — Viktor E. Frankl
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad. — Thomas Hobbes
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. — Thomas de Quincey
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but… — Susan B. Anthony
One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to… — Soren Kierkegaard
We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur — Seneca the Younger
It wouild be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes,… — Ronald Graham
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?" — Michel de Montaigne
Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that… — Michel de Montaigne

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