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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#life #new #new way #something #suddenly

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#first #horrors #lessen #second #seem

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#formula #imagination #instantly #me #need

I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day. ↗

— Richard Lester

#about #assistant #because #day #director

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. ↗

— Robert Burton

#farther #giant #himself #may #see

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#been #each #easy #first #lifetime

We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

#base #concentration #define #definition #frequently

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#also #around #being #economic #emotional

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#calls #chasing #early #growing #growing up

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. ↗

— Robert Ley

#explain #something #sometimes #understanding