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Tonto Dikeh
Prayer
Softly
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God
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America has always understood that it is defined by what it stands against more than what it stands for.
A. A. GILL
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Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.
Warren Buffet
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Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation…
Albert Einstein
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The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.
Zhuangzi
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Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.
Zhuangzi
Homage
Understanding
Upon
Play
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A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
Hero
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela
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When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you’re saying, because you’re speaking to God. It’s a direct communication between your spirit and God. You’re speaking the language that only He understands.
Chris Oyakhilome
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Spirit
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Francis of Assisi
Stands
Higher
Action
Silence
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau
Alive
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Dead
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Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Fear
India
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
Power
Prescription
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Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.
Aristotle Onassis
English
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Look
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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent van Gogh
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Many
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It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.
Kim Kardashian
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
Don DeLillo
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When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.
Kevin Hart
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Hollywood
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Ratan Tata
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Scrutiny
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The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out.
Abbie Hoffman
Against
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric Hoffer
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There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Housekeeping
Little
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Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.
Joel Osteen
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It is clear that the only language the zoo called Nigeria understands is war and death and we are ready for war
Nnamdi Kanu
Zoo
Nigeria
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War
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran
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Nadine Gordimer
Brings
Child
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Hate
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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
George Orwell
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
Malcolm X
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
V.S. Naipaul
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. Salinger
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Funny
Nobody
Practically
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
Nas
Africa
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman
Around
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S Truman
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Harry S Truman
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.
Ian Somerhalder
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
Babe Ruth
Did
Dirt
Hit
Mean
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Iggy Pop
Me
Nobody
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A stands for atom; it is so small No one has ever seen it at all. B stands for bomb; the bombs are much bigger, So, brother, do not be too fast on the trigger. H has become a most ominous letter. It means something bigger if not something better.
Edward Teller
All
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Irwin Shaw
About
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Good
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First of all, I respect The Game. He's trail-blazed for artists like myself. I appreciate him, having - living in L.A. myself and knowing what he stands for and what he stood for.
Jidenna
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Hubert Humphrey
Stands
Man
Every
Behind
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Benjamin Lincoln
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No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
P. T. Barnum
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Edgar Degas
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