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"In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something."
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"This deliberate focus and sensitivity allow you to "put yourself in another person's shoes and walk around a while" to better understand where they are coming from and what they are all about."
"It is called understanding when one accepts other's talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?"
"It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why."
"When we understand people; when we understand situations;when we understand what matters;when we understand the why's, the what's and the how's;when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others."
"We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves."
"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature."
"Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand."
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
"We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves."
"No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it."
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"The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war."
"Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity."
"Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence."
"The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence."
"I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like."
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