#understanding

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. ↗

— Diane Arbus

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It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. ↗

— James Baldwin

#admire #america #because #been #his

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on. ↗

— Robert Ballard

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The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

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It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding. ↗

— Halle Berry

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Sometimes it hurts to look at you,” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what I meant. ↗

— Jenny Han

#understanding #love

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#deconstruction #influence #understanding #writing #communication

Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#understanding #education

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

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