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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
William Godwin

Love, Question, Rule

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
William Godwin

Evil, Everything, Sense

There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.
Anatoly Chubais

Fight, Doubt, Possible

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
Hans Hofmann

Help, Become, Idea

There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.
Colin Mochrie

Love, Change, Beautiful

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.
Joshua Foer

Art, Beautiful, Help

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
Mandy Patinkin

Feelings, Wanted, Married

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.
Jerry Costello

History, Human, Community

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Natan Sharansky

Peace, Nature, Understand

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.
Janis Ian

Society, Hate, Real

I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.
Elizabeth Olsen

Someone, Why, Put

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
Boris Pasternak

Wonderful, Explosion, Erupt

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
Bruce Jackson

Rather, Fact, View

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
Caleb Cushing

Legal, Country, Rights

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.
Alain Robert

Time, Done, After

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Paul Dirac

Suffering, Might, Income

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.
Jermaine Jackson

Important, Him, Why

I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from.
Kerry King

Saying, Speak, Used

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
Jacques Barzun

Education, Past, Moral

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
George Savile

Three, Break, Laws

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
David Antin

Giving, Trying, Find

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.
Carrie Brownstein

Music, Play, Artifice

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.
Klaus Kinski

Freedom, Nothing, Said

I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.
Anna Kournikova

Done, Talk, Learn

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.
John Hench

Great, Respect, Nothing

Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.
John Hench

Idea, Looking, Common

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act.
Willie Mays

Black, Made, Why

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
Edward Sapir

Society, Alone, Live

I'm not driven by being understood.
Kary Mullis

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.
Tom Allen

Money, War, Today

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