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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.


Douglas Hurd


#great #ideas #important #judgement #line

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.


William Adams


#aboard #being #boats #came #come

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.


William Adams


#being #contrary #favor #geometry #grace

After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country, which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.


John F. Kennedy


#hatred #legend #mystery #power #understanding

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.


George C. Williams


#biological #century #disappeared #foster #last

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.


James Boswell


#argument #find #found #i #i am

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.


Albert Camus


#always #comes #evil #good #good intentions

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.


Joel Coen


#been #clear #comes #i #maybe

The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.


Sam Donaldson


#business #exciting #found #fulfilled #full

Audiences know exactly what's coming and they know from the beginning of the movie that everything's going to be OK and there will be high jinks that will get you from the beginning to the end, and eventually all the misunderstandings will be worked out and everyone will be in love.


Dana Fox


#beginning #coming #end #eventually #everyone






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