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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept. ↗

— Randall Terry

#george #george washington #god #kept #place

Women are made to be loved, not understood. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#made #understood #women #women are

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#helpless #make #misunderstanding #oneself #others

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives. ↗

— Jake Lloyd

#exactly #how #lives #much #none

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality. ↗

— Tom Petty

#authority #became #being #developed #i

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ↗

— Criss Jami

#determination #first-impression #fool #foolish #genius

Dynamic/Active vs. Static/Passive. The Biblical statement, '...and with knowledge gain understanding, and with understanding gain wisdom'- NT (passim), speaks to an active experiential involvement necessary on our part in producing a state of dynamic pragmatism. To my understanding, wisdom is knowledge understood and applied in our daily lives where the-rubber-meets-the-road". ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#dynamic-pragmatism #knowledge-understood #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. ↗

— Karl Popper

#intended #neither #nor #only #possible

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. ↗

— Judith Butler

#cannot #historically #jews #legitimately #now

I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part. ↗

— George Carey

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