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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
 
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings.
 
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I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
 
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War is so complex it's beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend. Our judgment, our understanding, are not adequate. And we kill people unnecessarily
 
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
 
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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves.
 
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
 
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
 
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So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.
 
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
 
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To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
 
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
 
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
 
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The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good
 
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All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.
 
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
 
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Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
 
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we are going to stop wars on this earth, we are going to have to make war on hunger our number one priority.
 
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
 
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