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"I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding."
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"Most people do not understand the process of achieving and fulfilling a dream."
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"I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill."
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"If you are unable to reach a person you must know that this happens not because that the roads are closed but because you don't know the true paths to reach that person!"
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"Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder."
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"Sex is a form of exploration, it is asking questions and getting answer."
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"It is not that I am very intelligent, but I try to understand with love."
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"There was no conflict between science and religion ever. The conflicts were actually between two different systems of human understanding " one was science, which was based on rigorous observations and examinations, and the other was fundamentalism, that's based on undisputed belief on the scriptures."
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"It is called understanding when one accepts other's talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?"
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"My concern is not the fact that other people don't understand where I am coming from, even though Christians are supposed to be doing what I am doing."
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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."
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"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."
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"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
Poetry
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
Prose
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
Sophists
"I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions."
Theory
"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."
Family
"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
Poet
"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
Music
"Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real."
Creativity
"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."
Lie
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