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"We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards."
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"If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering."
"You need to understand what goal you were created for and you need to understand your destination."
"You misinterpret everything, even the silence."
"Love has no meaning without understanding."
"There is always something behind patience and impatience! Be careful enough to understand these two things any time you meet anybody, the patience and impatience of the person!"
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
"Many Christians have no understanding of God's fatherhood."
"It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's mission is to convert, a theological philosopher's mission is to build an understanding of a position."
"The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs."
"God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time."
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"I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it."
"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."
"That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty.To make everything better."
"We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite."
"It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty."
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