#understand

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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I understand that if I really need my hair to be nice, now I hire someone to do it, and I understand that putting on a pair of heels really makes a difference. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

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The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

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You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right? ↗

— Barack Obama

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. ↗

— Ovid

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You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

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The older you get the more you understand what you're doing. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#get #more #older #understand #you

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#african american #american #asian #asian american #between