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Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

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There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. ↗

— William Godwin

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Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence. ↗

— William Falconer

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The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

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In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly. ↗

— Eduard Hanslick

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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. ↗

— Aristotle

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