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Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.
Tim Hudson

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven

My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.
Donna Leon

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.
George Whitefield

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
Guru Nanak

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.
Stanley Crouch

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
Arthur Erickson

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
Piers Anthony

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.
Dee Brown

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.
Michelle Shocked

There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
Frederica Montseny

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Blaise Pascal

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
Algernon Sydney

TO comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
Charles Inglis

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
Ruth Hubbard

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
Arthur Erickson

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