#grasped

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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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

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I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance. ↗

— Eric Sevareid

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I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

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They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race. ↗

— Denis Kearney

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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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