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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

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One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Extend a hand whether or not you know it shall be grasped. ↗

— Ryunosuke Satoro

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I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance. ↗

— Eric Sevareid

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I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. ↗

— Jean Kerr

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ↗

— Diane Arbus

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They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race. ↗

— Denis Kearney

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