Understood Quotes - Page 31

• And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood historically - without any sympathy - you are going to be thought of as unpatriotic, and you are going to be forbidden. It's very dangerous. It is precisely incumbent on every citizen to quite understand the world we're living in and the history we are a part of and we are forming as a superpower.

  Edward Said

  Citizens, Entering, World

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.

  William Fitzsimmons

  Way, Language, Adages

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model.

  Peter Kinderman

  People, Favors, Psycho

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I believe if any of these candidates really understood that America is in the crosshairs of God, and that America will never be made great again. None of them will be able to lift America up but letting the Black man go and giving us justice that will save America... I am almost sure that if they don't do that, it will be said: "We must get rid of Farrakhan." And that will bring about the destruction of America even more quickly.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Believe, Men, America

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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• Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens.

  Daughn Gibson

  Home, Kids, Parent

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us. That is one of the major differences that we have.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Fighting, Agreement

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If I completely understood what was going on and I understood these songs, they wouldn't make sense to play live anymore. They're still enigmatic for me. I'm still searching in the songs as they are. That's what's actually been the most fun about playing and touring for me is that there's still a lot of caverns in the songs where you can go and hide out different nights.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Fun, Night

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

  Matt Tong

  Art, Lows, Distinction

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

  John Dieterich

  People, Brain, Want

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

  Jimenez Lai

  Reality, Thinking, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.

  Spike Lee

  Surprise, Trailers, Ifs

  "Spike Lee Scores Kickstarter Goal". Interview with Craigh Barboza, www.ebony.com. August 22, 2013.

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• When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.

  Juan Enriquez

  Technology, India, Revolution

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.

  Tyler Perry

  Years

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

  Gore Vidal

  Class, People, Reform

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

  Whitney Otto

  Forgiveness

  Whitney Otto (2015). “How to Make an American Quilt”, p.120, Ballantine Books

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• Fairly examined, truly understood,
  No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

  Theognis of Megara

  Men

  Theognis of Megara, “Human Nature”

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• In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Faith, Science, Understanding

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• Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.

  Phil Hine

  Discovery, Design, Technique

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• Desires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood.

  Zicheng Hong

  Truth, Desire

  Zicheng Hong, Tze-chiang Chao (1959). “A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty "Discourses on Vegetable Roots"”

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• When I came here [to Malaysia] I heard that there is a problem with the concept of pluralism whereby pluralism is understood in a very narrow way, which I think is wrong. This is not to diminish your sense of truth in what you believe but to acknowledge the fact that we live in a world where we need to deal with pluralism. It's a fact.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Believe, Thinking, Pluralism Is

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• In fact all the Islamists, that is the reformists not the Salafis, now they all say that they want a civil state, a civil state with Islamic reference points. They are not talking about an Islamic state, or sharia in the way this was once understood in the fight against the colonisers, or just afterwards in the 70's, 80's and 90's.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Fighting, Talking

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Taken, Decision, Would Be

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It also includes the recognition of the value of democracy. When we speak about social justice, it means that freedom should be used not only in the interest of profit but also in the interest of the advancement of the people who create all values.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Mean, Ideas, Justice

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian faith, but for whom the traditional symbols, as traditionally understood, no longer make sense. The other audience is the audience that has left. I call them the Church Alumni Association, citizens of the secular city. They are a bit nostalgic about this faith of their childhood, but they aren't really interested in trotting it out or becoming involved with it again as it is presently organized.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Cities, Two

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

  Karen Abbott

  Rose, Desire, Half

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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