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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

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.
Paul Nurse

Life, Good, Health

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
Madame de Stael

Makes, Totally, Indulgent

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.
Michael Symon

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
Paul Nurse

Great, Experience, Beautiful

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

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.
Julian Fellowes

Hell, Film, Material

I think fans of the sport have a good understanding now of how fit Formula One drivers need to be.
Jenson Button

Good, Fans, Fit

I have an understanding of Queen and the way Freddie Mercury did his harmonies. I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.
Lupe Fiasco

Father, Sound, Played

Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.
Paul Davies

Nature, True, May

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.
Louis Farrakhan

Wanted, Based, Honorable

It's my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown.
Tom Colicchio

Art, Belief, Cooking

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
Edward Steichen

Work, Art, Experience

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

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

Progress, Run, Risks

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.
Colin Quinn

Trying, Laughs, Comedians

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

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

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

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, Words

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.
Jane Siberry

Study, Universe, Found

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
Juan Antonio Samaranch

Friendship, Peace, Philosophy

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

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
George Savile

Men, Give, Against

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
Carlos Fuentes

Good, Bad, Others

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
Lawrence Eagleburger

Business, Difficult, American

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

Religion, Point, Week

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
David Gerrold

Nature, Mean, Laws

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?
Ken Burns

Time, Hard, Happened

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