#understand

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#been #career #find #hard #how

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#concerned #democracy #eat #educated #egypt

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#count #delicacy #hope #i #lack

It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East. ↗

— Dennis Ross

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Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#around #because #certainly #comes #development

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#could #desert #ditch #full #grass

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#board #called #deeper #develop #greater

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. ↗

— Maimonides

#assert #assertion #bible #extent #founded

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything. ↗

— Maimonides

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