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Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ↗

— Aesop

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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' ↗

— Abigail Adams

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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ↗

— Aesop

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Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ↗

— George Bancroft

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Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers. ↗

— Albert Bandura

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I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it. ↗

— Paul Darrow

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Radical simply means "grasping things at the root." ↗

— Angela Davis

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