#under

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#glorification #in the end #makes #nothing #other

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling. ↗

— John Abizaid

#conversations #enough #feeling #good #people

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home. ↗

— John Abizaid

#army #body needs #everybody #home #i

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#because #believed #believes #cbs #dan

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#i #i think #important #law #less

I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah. ↗

— Hasil Adkins

#cars #down #got #hill #i

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#brings #every #goal #human #human being

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#acts #does #every #fate #his

Man knows much more than he understands. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#man #more #much #than #understands

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#believe #diplomat #figure #going #how