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#standing

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There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension. --"Wanda


Ouida


#sin #understanding #wrongs #religion

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.


Ben Marcus


#storytelling #respect

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy


Carl Sagan


#understanding #science

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.


Marshall McLuhan


#opinion #probes #social-science #understanding #wisdom

I'm taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people. I can't help thinking that medicine is more closely aligned to the humanities than to the sciences. I can't help thinking that I could learn more about being a good doctor from William Shakespeare than I could from Isaac Newton. After all, isn't understanding people at least as important as understanding pathology?


Michael J. Collins


#medical #medicine #people #science #surgeon

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.


Shannon Hale


#wisdom #wisdom

she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.


Paulo Coelho


#safety #understanding #life

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.


Criss Jami


#creative #different #difficulties #distinction #envy

Don't criticize what you can't understand.


Bob Dylan


#criticism #song-lyrics #understanding

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.


George Orwell


#propaganda #rewriting-history #understanding






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