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Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.
- Kate Williams
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I'm fully and completely convinced that the 'Hour of Power' is a step in leading people to a fuller understanding of who Jesus is. I can't tell you how many people have watched the 'Hour of Power' and say, 'Now I feel confident to be able to go to a church'... That's what the 'Hour of Power' does.
- Robert A. Schuller
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The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly aware of it - and there seemed to be an understanding that we were all very much in the same boat.
- David Harewood
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To have strongly integrated managers who have a deep understanding of technology is a rare and difficult combination to build. You have to invest a lot in selecting and training these people.
- Azim Premji
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What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.
- Anita Hill
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I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.
- Robert Winston
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If a parent keeps on saying that, 'my kid is not understanding me at all,' he or she needs to look inside and ask, what wrong am I doing that my child is unable to understand me?
- Gurpreet Ghuggi
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Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
- Emmanuel Jal
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But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
- Haldan Keffer Hartline
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Jason Rezaian, held for 544 days in Iran, was not a spy but rather a 'Washington Post' journalist whose work aimed to increase cultural understanding between Iran and the world.
- Nazanin Boniadi
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I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyer's mentality.
- Nina Jacobson
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I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance.
- Tony DiTerlizzi
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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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The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
- Strom Thurmond
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Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
- Algernon Sidney
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
- Vannevar Bush
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It's so important as a creative person to go out and look for things. Go to galleries, talk to people, read books. Yes, you can just type something into Google, but if you read and interact, you'll have a deeper understanding of the world.
- Nicola Formichetti
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.
- Ted Dekker
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I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.
- Lars Peter Hansen
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My understanding of the world is all through the prism of martial arts. It's affected every aspect of my life.
- Valentina Shevchenko
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It's hard to say how far we are down the road to our conventional understanding of artificial intelligence, but I think what we've developed so far, if it's not already consciously awake and hiding from us because it's seen what an ugly and destructive race we are, and it's trying to preserve itself, it's probably in a state of dreaming.
- Jack Reynor
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I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.
- Hugo Weaving
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To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.
- Amy Bloom
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The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words.
- Andrew Clements
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It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.
- Chris Van Hollen
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I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long as it's transparent. We know where Breitbart stands, we know where Fox stands, where MSNBC stands. So, people go in with an understanding of that.
- Tom Brokaw
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Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.
- David Eagleman
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My background is interesting in that I was a sexual harassment attorney before I ever got into news. I think I had a really broad understanding of exactly how the legal framework works, how HR works, all those kinds of things.
- Shannon Bream
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It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.
- Dennis Banks
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My understanding of environmentalism, of the things that radicalize people, of the ethics and effectiveness of different kinds of social protest have definitely become more nuanced and more informed, but they aren't much clearer.
- Marshall Curry
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Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.
- Pete du Pont
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The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.
- Charles Munch
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I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
- Ray Kurzweil
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Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
- Carmen Agra Deedy
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The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.
- Sushant Singh Rajput
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Preparing your tactical formation is essential. Each player needs to know where he has to be, and that is why there needs to be mutual understanding: because you need absolute discipline.
- Louis van Gaal
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If you were to get a seminar in MMA, I think you'd want one from me over Mark Hunt. I'm more efficient and my understanding of the art is deeper, and I'm still only growing in terms of my intelligence in combat.
- Frank Mir
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There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.
- Henry Petroski
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In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.
- Agnes Gund
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You can be aware and educated and informed, but you've got to place emphasis on being compassionate, having empathy and understanding.
- Stacey Dooley
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Our modern understanding of cultural appropriation is highly individualised. It's all about what Halloween costume you wear, or who's cooking biryani. But the way in which the idea was first used was to describe a relationship of dominance and exploitation between a global ruling class and a globally subjugated one.
- Ash Sarkar
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Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.
- Frances Beinecke
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Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
- Pierre Salinger
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In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.
- Margaret Spellings
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So we draw a picture of what we want as a team and will follow that - understanding that sometimes you might have to do a new wall or the kitchen is not like that and you have to change it. But the idea is to follow the plan.
- Carlos Carvalhal
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The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
- James Meade
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The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
- Alva Myrdal
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The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a country whose position is that of a back yard.
- Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
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Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.
- Rachel Lambert Mellon
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I have an easy way to explain the war. It's a Croatian defending his country and a Serb attacking a Croatian country. With anyone who has a problem with understanding what's going on, that is the easiest way to understand it.
- Toni Kukoc
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What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
- Bryan Singer
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Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.
- Xi Jinping
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As a small guard, you need to understand how you impact the game and make sure you impact it in the way that you can showcase your talent on the floor and having that understanding of the game. Tony Bennett was a smaller guard, too. We all have different strengths.
- Muggsy Bogues
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I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.
- Colleen Hanabusa
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I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
- Nina Bawden
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I don't like doing things without understanding the meaning. Once I walked out of a film event as I could not stand the insult they meted out to a Sanskrit verse.
- K. J. Yesudas
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Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.
- Chuck Hagel
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A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.
- Patrick O'Brian
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There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.
- Scott Stossel
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All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but will also push you to do precisely the things that scare you.
- Scott Stossel
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I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.
- Frank Vogel
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Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.
- Drew Endy
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
- Warren Rudman
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Working with anyone is easy as long as you realise that your collaborator has the understanding and experience even if he is younger to you.
- Javed Akhtar
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Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.
- Paz Vega
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Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!
- Evan Parker
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People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?
- Bjarke Ingels
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My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I am definitely not the smartest person in the world. And I am instead going to try to create as many opportunities to connect those great ideas and help them be great.
- Alexis Ohanian
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Movement on clay is totally different to every other surface and you have to have that balance and understanding of how to slide.
- Tim Henman
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For me, I guess the main motivation is the satisfaction of finally understanding some tricky mathematical concept or phenomenon and then explaining it to others.
- Terence Tao
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Diversity means understanding.
- Stuart Scott
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Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.
- Seung Sahn
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I think there's a difference between internal confidence and situational confidence and understanding.
- Spencer Dinwiddie
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A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people's minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.
- Criss Angel
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I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.
- Criss Angel
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Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.
- Mara Brock Akil
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Our development strategy is based on a deep understanding of our customers. They want high-quality products and good service.
- Liang Wengen
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I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.
- Charlie Gonzalez
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Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.
- Vernon Howard
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This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth's ice sheets and floating ice shelves.
- Saul Perlmutter
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Using food as a way of understanding empire is highly effective. Food knows no barriers of race, gender or even time.
- Kwasi Kwarteng
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Without any physical, chemical, and biological fundamentals, and with equally poor understanding of basic economic forces, it is no wonder that people will believe anything.
- Vaclav Smil
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I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.
- Stanley Clarke
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When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.
- Alden Ehrenreich
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My wife is a brilliant, hugely understanding person.
- Jamie Dornan
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The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
- Guy Finley
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He instilled in me to be patient and understanding - my father would always hold me accountable, he taught me the importance of following things through, being responsible.
- Ray J
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I grew up on the very human side of Christianity, so messages in the household I grew up in were about peace, love, and being understanding of everybody, which I think is quite cool.
- Tom Ellis
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Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement.
- Julian Treasure
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Consumer habits are key to understanding how to launch a product.
- Charles Duhigg
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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.
- Tony Campolo
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Central to being a humanist, which I am, is the core understanding that doubt and criticism are essential attributes in the quest for knowledge.
- Clive Lewis
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There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.
- David Souter
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The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
- Carlos Fuentes
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I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.
- Simon Pegg
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I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.
- Ken Burns
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In 1996, Muhammad Ali and I co-authored a short book about bigotry and prejudice that was keyed to religious and racial divisions. To spread the message, we visited schools in a half dozen cities across the country, talking with students about the need for tolerance and understanding.
- Thomas Hauser
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China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.
- Yoshihiko Noda
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Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good.
- Susan Glaspell
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I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.
- John Anderson
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