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• People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.

  Elliott Smith

  People, Filters, Records

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• When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only to enable humans to manipulate it. I mean that sense of nature that Aldo Leopold had in mind when he said, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community, wrong when it tends otherwise.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Integrity, Mean, Community

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I thought that coming out was going to be the end of my religious life but actually it was the beginning. Because it only afterwards that I could be honest about who I was, what I wanted, how I understood spirituality.

  Jay Michaelson

  Religious, Spirituality, Honest

  "Interview: Jay Michaelson, Author Of God Vs. Gay? The Religious Case For Equality". BYT Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. October 21, 2011.

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• This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.

  Natalie Maines

  Flower, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The Church's challenge is staying close to the people, close to the people of the United States, not being a detached Church from the people but close to them, close, close, and this is something that the Church in the United States has understood and understood well.

  Pope Francis

  People, Challenges, Church

  In-flight interview from Philadelphia to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. September 27, 2015.

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• We have to create the ability to police our own communities instead of leaving it in the hands of a system that has never understood us, tried to marginalize and politically assassinate all of our leaders whenever they came to challenge the status quo.

  Immortal Technique

  Hands, Community, Leader

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• We consider the Holocaust as being a sort of strange event taking place on another planet; we never understood in a visceral way that this is something that took place in the heart of man. That's something that you can feel, the genocidal tendency is within human nature. It seems that if we forget about this, our future is also compromised.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Heart, Men, Holocaust

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

  Harrison Ford

  Baseball, America, World

  "PUM One on One with Harrison Ford". Interview with Kam William, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• When I speak or when I offer ideas and explain how the universe seems to work from the point of view that I've understood, it seems to give people a lift - an unshackling or freeing.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Views, Ideas, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• My husband didn't want the divorce, but I did. So there was a lot of bitterness initially. Once we got to the space where we understood that we have the most important thing in the world in common; no one else shared that commonality. Our son is priceless, and in order to give him the best, we have to be better to each other. Although we are still divorced, we still call each other "family." It was a journey to get there, but it's a beautiful place to be.

  Regina King

  Beautiful, Husband, Divorce

  "Actor Regina King: Divorce as a journey, staying a family and mind over matter". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• So what Jesus taught must be understood from the deepest level and that is one of the best sayings to show that he was talking in that way. In the book Revelations from Christ, I found out something that Yogananda said. That Jesus had said son of men and son of God, and people often misunderstand so sometimes the translations themselves are wrong for that reason. So when he said son of man he meant his human body and personality. When he said son of God, he meant the infinite Christ consciousness with which he'd obtained oneness.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Jesus, Book, Son

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• Entanglement can best be understood as this: When subatomic matter is in a process together, subsequently the subatomic particles go apart from each other and go across the universe. When they do this, they will remain entangled. That means if you do something to one, the other one responds immediately, instantaneously.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Mean, Together, Across The Universe

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.

  Theaster Gates

  Artist, Museums, Ideas

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

  Corey Smith

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I would go into periods of depression in my life, and I would feel so alone. I felt that there was no one who understood how I felt, either on TV or in music, and writing really helped me change what I thought and how I felt about myself.

  Brie Larson

  Writing, Tvs, Periods

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• Global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific data in their articles is the occasional chart claiming a poorly understood correlation between atmospheric CO2 and the Earth's temperature.

  Walter Cunningham

  Data, Trying, Earth

  "Politics Outweigh Science In Global Warming Debate". www.heartland.org. June 5, 2010.

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• I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?

  Tommy Lasorda

  Writing, Catholic, Corinthians

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• My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself with. It's my friends, particularly my wife, who is not only smarter than and stronger than I am but, occasionally taller too. I think it all goes back to my mother. My father and my stepfather prized whit and resolve in the women they were with above all things. And they were among the rare men who understood that recognising somebody else's power does not diminish your own.

  Joss Whedon

  Sexy, Mother, Father

  Joss Whedon's acceptance speech at the Equality Now Award, www.americanrhetoric.com. May 15, 2006.

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• My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching Candid Camera, I finally understood what comedy was all about. I heard the laughter on television, I turned around and saw my parents laughing, and that's when I thought: 'This is great. This is what I can do. I'm gonna prank somebody.'

  Howie Mandel

  Laughter, Night, Candid Camera

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

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• My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me.

  Nick Frost

  Stars, War, Years

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• I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Mean, People, Guy

  Gilbert Gottfried (2011). “Rubber Balls and Liquor”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Children, Animal, Symphony

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• Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Impact, People

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• Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown. However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn't it the same with life? Doesn't the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, it at all, only at its end, on the verge of death?

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Meaning Of Life, Finals, Lasts

  Viktor E Frankl (2013). “Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust”, p.145, Random House

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• The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.

  Anais Nin

  Children, Lying, Men

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