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Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.
Sue Johanson

Education, Sex, Behind

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.
John Bolton

Social, Three, Economics

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.
Eric Liu

Government, Today, Past

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
Barbara Kingsolver

Future, Mother, Character

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.
Edward James Olmos

Beauty, Down, Two

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
Arthur Henderson

Success, America, Between

But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.
Julius Erving

Live, Moving, Try

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
Stanislav Grof

Life, Death, Study

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
Stanislav Grof

Death, End, Research

When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility.
Ayelet Waldman

Selfish, Reality, Less

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.
Anna Kendrick

Family, Become, Quite

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.
Lev Grossman

Book, Thought, College

He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
Walter Isaacson

Special, Said, Jobs

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
Henry Reed

Dreams, Reality, Real

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
Brooke Burke

Makes, Okay, Forty

Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.
Jeff Goodell

Made, Progress, Run

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
David R. Brower

Love, Time, Keep

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.
Mia Wasikowska

Character, Why, Often

I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
Idris Elba

Time, Long, Done

It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.
Bob Geldof

Depression, Through, Understand

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
Felix Frankfurter

Life, Work, Everything

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Ralph Ellison

Life, Art, Knowledge

All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.
Tom Waits

Time, Someone, May

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
Anthony Perkins

Life, Love, Great

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
Robert Delaunay

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
Wynton Marsalis

You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.
Richard Russo

Great, Thoughts, Her

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.
Richard Russo

Time, Book, Hard

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
Dave Davies

Love, Compassion, Leaders

One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.
David Miliband

Respect, Thought, Two

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