#understanding

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#concert hall #day #every #every day #hall

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. ↗

— George Savile

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My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices. ↗

— Egon Schiele

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You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that. ↗

— William Scranton

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My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars. ↗

— William Shatner

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The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#frightening #important #lack #part #perspective

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#common #defined #else #essential #fire

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

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