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• Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.

  Joel Osteen

  Judging, People, Judgement

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• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Courage, Honesty

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  Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

  John Green

  Book, Reading, Novelists

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• I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't get you

  Drake

  Relationship, Break Up, Girl

  Song: Shot for Me, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

  J. William Fulbright

  Sympathy, Education, Hope

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• Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

  James Patterson

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.

  Leon Brown

  Love, Life, Baseball

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  When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

  Frank Ocean

  Happiness, Sad, Happy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

  Bruce Schneier

  Technology, Thinking, Cryptography

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

  George S. Clason

  Inspirational, Money, Simple

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.105, Lulu.com

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• Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, Bird

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• Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

  Edward T. Hall

  Jobs, Real, Years

  "The Silent Language". Book by Edward T. Hall, 1959.

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• What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

  Alice Miller

  Pain, Recovery, Addiction

  Alice Miller (2008). “Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth”, p.126, Basic Books

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• It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.

  Allan Sandage

  Science, World, Mystery

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• I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior, but we are after all a mere part of the Creation. And we must continue to understand where we are. And we stand between the mountain and the ant, somewhere and there only, as part of the Creation.

  Oren Lyons

  Native American, Eagles, Mountain

  "Animal Grace: Can Humans Rise to the Call?" by Sheila Shayon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2009.

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• Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

  Bruno Barbey

  Photography, World, Photographer

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• No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

  Thomas Sowell

  Two, Numbers, Political

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Swallow my words. Taste my thoughts. And if it's too nasty, spit it back at me!.

  Lil Wayne

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Swallowing

  FaceBook post by Lil Wayne from May 13, 2012

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• It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Wisdom, Native American, Expression

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• I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.

  Dean Ornish

  Food, Health, Cutting

  "Hearts and Minds" by Roberto Suro, New York Times Magazine, December 29, 1991.

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• If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

  Betty Eadie

  Positive, Strength, Yoga

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• The law of attraction is always working whether you believe it or understand it or not.

  Bob Proctor

  Work, Believe, Law Of Attraction

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 25, 2017

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• Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

  Pope Francis

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.

  Jerry Falwell

  God, Sports, Christian

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• Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Inspirational, Music, Numbers

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