#under

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. ↗

— E. T. Bell

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In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it. ↗

— Joshua Bell

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When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer. ↗

— Kristen Bell

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We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#cities #especially #fitted #into #land

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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Whoever wants to understand much must play much. ↗

— Gottfried Benn

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My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ. ↗

— John Woolman

#afflicted #been #christ #clearness #deeply

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. ↗

— George C. Williams

#biological #century #disappeared #foster #last

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. ↗

— Hal Borland

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