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The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
William Trevor

Thinking, Fiction, Indeed

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
Amar Bose

Good, High, Body

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.
Juan Cole

Nature, Knowledge, Decision

The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.
Sydney Brenner

Moment, Problems, Found

I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face.
Jeremy Sisto

Experience, Whole, Rather

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.
David Crystal

Society, End, Means

The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.
Leon Jouhaux

Far, Content, Based

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.
George Grosz

Free, Service, Rather

I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.
Peter Jurasik

Church, Left, Needed

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.
Joseph Fiennes

Love, Compassion, Fall

The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.
David Deutsch

Brain, Why, Wrong

People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.
Aloe Blacc

Evil, May, Around

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.
Edward Zwick

Change, Time, Hope

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.
Frederick Sanger

Knowledge, Living, Matter

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
Jack Valenti

Public, Films, Nerves

I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.
Kevin Sorbo

Suffering, Definitely

They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team.
David Gower

Work, Happy, Hard

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
Martin C. Smith

Attitude, Might, Call

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.
Edward Grey

May, Cannot, View

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.
Lynn Davies

Life, Lose, Losing

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
William Adams

Time, Able, Neither

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
Marc Bloch

History, Nor, Toward

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.
Ernest Thompson Seton

Peace, Successful, Between

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.
Giraldus Cambrensis

Powerful, Rich, Whatever

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
Fred Ward

Women, Sex, Trying

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.
Wil Wheaton

Patience, Experience, Wife

I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.
Tracy Reese

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

Life, Daily, Action

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.
Susan Taylor

Greater, Deeper, Stones

I've played so many moms, best friends, sisters and understanding people.
Rita Wilson

Best, Friends, Played

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