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We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge… — James Boswell
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to… — Benjamin Disraeli
What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that… — Alice Miller
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows… — Edward T. Hall
The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes,… — Rajneesh
You don`t have any problems - only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems. because they are your… — Rajneesh
The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a… — John Milton
The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by… — James Madison
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly… — John Adams Gilmer
Understand before you pass judgement. But how do you pass judgement once you have understood? — Laurent Fignon
The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no… — Roger Wolcott Sperry
Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more… — Soren Kierkegaard
I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong… — Cary Grant
I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking from the diary.… — Jo Yoon-hee
Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers who claim to… — Andrew Gamble
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and… — Catherine of Genoa
Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly… — Daniel C. Peterson
The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen. — El Greco

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