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Going to an interracial high school shaped my understanding of social justice and racial inequality.
Ed Schultz
Justice
School
Understanding
High
High School
Shaped
Inequality
Going
Social
Racial
Social Justice
Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.
Eddie Albert
Courage
Fear
Understanding
Plus
Prayers
Just
It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
Edith Widder
Life
Light
Animals
Understanding
Ocean
Think
Our
Spent
Critical
Fact
Study
Studying
Most
Make
Because
Occurs
Where
Career
Phenomenon
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
Edward Abbey
Today
Science
Understanding
More
More And More
Gives
Calls
Glut
Itself
Information
Which
Us
Less
You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.
Edward James Olmos
You
Culture
Diversity
Beauty
Understanding
Down
Hundred
States
Churches
More
Because
Years
Than
Get
Lack
Burned
United
United States
Last
Two
I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.
Edward Snowden
Time
Freedom
Privacy
People
Communicate
World
Understanding
Other
Analyzed
Systems
Shadowy
Mention
Sort
Judged
Without
Lines
Up
Any
Being
Where
Grew
Anything
Public
Across
Measured
Figures
Each
Lived
Travels
Enjoyed
Technical understanding should be a core competency of any company.
Edwin Catmull
Understanding
Any
Should
Company
Technical
Core
Every Pixar movie has its own rules that viewers have to accept, understand, and enjoy understanding. The voices of the toys in the 'Toy Story' films, for example, are never audible to humans.
Edwin Catmull
Example
Understanding
Own
Enjoy
Every
Films
Rules
Voices
Never
For Example
Toy
Toys
Accept
Understand
Movie
Pixar
Story
Viewers
Humans
My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.
Egon Schiele
Love
Me
Love Me
Woman
Strange
Mother
Understanding
Would
Would-Be
Be Prepared
Had
Sacrifices
She
Make
Understand
Least
Very
Either
Much
Prepared
There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.
Ehud Olmert
Understanding
Oval
Oval Office
Greater
Greater Understanding
Israel
Issues
Encounter
Existential
Than
Office
Nowhere
The work of these women doesn't end when they return home from overseas, as one goal of the Peace Corps' mission is to help promote a better understanding of other cultures here in the United States.
Elaine Chao
Work
Home
Peace
Women
Better
Understanding
Other
Corps
States
Promote
Better Understanding
Mission
Return
Return Home
Goal
Overseas
Cultures
End
Help
Peace Corps
United
United States
Here
To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.
Elias James Corey
Work
Beautiful
Art
Nature
Approaching
Perception
Beauty
Understanding
Other
Synthetic
Complex
Structures
Studied
Perhaps
Chemical
Chemist
Subject
Any
Romance
Depends
Transformations
Creations
Molecules
Even
Her
Level
Treasured
To the field of synthetic chemistry belongs an array of responsibilities which are crucial for the future of mankind, not only with regard to the health and needs of our society, but also for the attainment of a deep understanding of matter, chemical change, and life.
Elias James Corey
Life
Future
Health
Needs
Change
Matter
Understanding
Chemistry
Field
Society
Our
Synthetic
Responsibilities
Only
Crucial
Attainment
Also
Chemical
Array
Regard
Which
Mankind
Deep
Belongs
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
Elizabeth Drew
Relationship
Democracy
Understanding
Rests
Shared
Like
Limits
Any
We have a lot of work we need to do to make sure all of our children have a better understanding of this diverse and wonderful and beautiful world.
Elizabeth Esty
Work
Beautiful
Wonderful
World
Better
Understanding
Our
Diverse
Better Understanding
Make
Sure
Lot
Children
Need
Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.
Elizabeth Warren
Good
Good Things
Power
Reading
Understanding
Back
Those
Consumers
Puts
Mortgages
Check
Contracts
Get
Hands
Used
Agreements
Credit
Card
Credit Card
Things
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
Ella Maillart
Life
People
Understanding
Meet
Must
Abroad
Mysterious
Develop
Like
Greater
Greater Understanding
Passengers
Ship
Interest
Board
Us
Deeper
Here
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
Ellen Swallow Richards
Life
Daily
World
Understanding
Action
Relations
Higher
Material
Material World
Subject
Ends
Daily Life
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
Ellen Terry
You
Training
World
Obey
Circle
Understanding
Before
Neglect
Rules
Recognised
Must
All The Difference
Eccentric
Through
Between
Know
Learned
Departure
Difference
Where
Want
Them
Skill
Who
I've always been one to want to memorize everything and just be confident that I know all of the lines, but that changed. After college, I realized it's not as much about being off-book as it is about completely understanding the character and, more so, getting into the mind of your character.
Emily Osment
Character
Mind
College
Understanding
Just Be
Changed
Everything
Memorize
About
More
Know
Always
Been
Lines
Getting
Confident
Just
Being
Want
After
Realized
Much
Your
In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.
Emir Kusturica
Good
Me
Hate
People
Good Things
World
Bad Things
Understanding
Bipolar
Bad
Because
Lot
Western
Very
Western World
Want
Serbia
Things
I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.
Emma Stone
Me
Better
Parents
Blessed
Understanding
Think
Out
Could
Always
Been
Very
Any
Want
Worked
Lucky
Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
Emmanuel Jal
Love
Care
Become
Understanding
Soldier
Through
Go
Normal
Lot
Child
Any
I just try to leave my baggage at the door. I don't want to carry my stuff into a working environment with me, and I expect that from other people. If they can't do it, though, I'm surprisingly understanding.
Eric Dane
Me
People
Try
Understanding
Other
Though
Carry
Environment
Baggage
Stuff
Leave
Surprisingly
Expect
Just
Want
Door
Working
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer
Together
Understanding
Living
Society
Other
Would
Would-Be
Depended
Each
Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.
Eric Liu
Today
Government
Understanding
Past
Our
System
Public
Low
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