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Understanding Quotes
On meeting people where they are.
A number of these quotes describe wanting a partner who is kind and understanding, tying the idea directly to the effort a relationship takes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history - the academic word for flag making and heraldry.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.
- Exhilarating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences, or music, that somebody's been exposed to. But that's an individual thing; there's no sort of universal understanding of what jazz is.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
- Mistakes
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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
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A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
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Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is of immense importance for the understanding of the word of God, to read it in course, so that we may read every day a portion of the Old and a portion of the New Testament, going on where we previously left off.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020