#stood

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. ↗

— Edward Lawrie Tatum

#better understood #coming #cultures #evolution #mutant

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#before #embarrassing #gave #god #had

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#before #caught #detached #get #jim

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#confines #experience #himself #his #leader

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#corruptions #nothing #politics #understood #word

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#aware #bad #become #dark #done

I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets. ↗

— Chris Kyle

#believed #difference #guy #helped #i

Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#i #life #look #months #never

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#always #been #paper #part #role

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#money #none #own #power #state