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I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.
by Bradley Whitford (Actor, American , born in 1959) keywords: administration, because, better, choices, current, family, going, good, grew, grow, internalized, into, just, kids, life, made, off, scary, think, ticks, understanding, up, very, want, were, where, without, world, worry , would Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.
by Meg Whitman (Businessman, American , born in 1956) keywords: being, bit, little, our, politician, sentiments, sometimes, understanding, users , work When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
by Thornton Wilder (Novelist, American , born in 1897) keywords: alive, being, best, bring, creature, deepest, gift, god, happiness, highest, him, his, know, loves, misery, save, understanding, wants , whole I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
by Andrew Wiles (Mathematician, English , born in 1953) keywords: broad, clarify, conceptual, fit, mathematics, part, particular, previous, problem, some, thinking, tried, understanding , would Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
by George C. Williams (Scientist, American , born in 1926) keywords: accumulated, attitudes, biological, century, disappeared, foster, last, many, ought, over, religions, traditional , understanding Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.
by Thomas Willis (Scientist, English , born in 1621) keywords: animal, brings, dulling, especially, faculty, falling, great, happens, head, headlong, high, place, prejudice, sometimes, understanding, weakness, which , wound The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
by Kenneth G. Wilson (Scientist, American , born in 1936) keywords: causes, ever, extensive, inquiry, into, more, nature, providing, scientist, things , understanding To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.
by Samuel Wilson (Public Servant, American , born in 1766) keywords: approach, change, enhance, evolving, health, important, inspire, knowledge, maximize, might, new, open, our, potential, questions, remain, resources, should, technology, these , understanding Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
by Woodrow Wilson (President, American , born in 1856) keywords: does, interest, nations, separates, sometimes, sympathy, them, tie, together, understanding , unite The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
by Woodrow Wilson (President, American , born in 1856) keywords: conditions, insight, instrument, interpretation, life, method, nice, political, science, subtle , understanding It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
by Oprah Winfrey (Entertainer, American , born in 1954) keywords: begin, come, control, deep, down, feeling, necessarily, religious, spirit, spiritual, take, understanding, until , within The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?
by Stephen Wolfram (Scientist, English , born in 1959) keywords: been, building, complex, equations, got, how, make, mathematical, might, natural, now, okay, phenomena, progress, question, science, started, thing, understanding, world , years For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
by Xenophon (Soldier , Greek) keywords: also, any, beauty, compulsion, dancer, does, done, either, horse, more, observes, should, simon, spur, than, under, understanding, whip , without The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
by Arthur Young (Writer, English , born in 1741) keywords: imply, intending, know, lack, machinery, machines, man, mechanism, mere, nothing, philosophers, purpose, shows, talk, tendency, understanding, well , without I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
by Sarah Zettel (Author, American , born in 1966) keywords: better, easier, fantasy, folklore, internal, intuitive, myth, science, technology, than, understanding , way Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
by Stefan Zweig (Writer, Austrian , born in 1881) keywords: exile, in-depth, into, misfortune, only, overview, provide, realities, understanding , world There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.
by Edward Zwick (Director, American , born in 1952) keywords: awareness, challenging, change, circumstance, comes, each, engaging, entertain, exclusive, fact, filmmaker, first, foremost, fuel, greater, happen, hope, mutually, other, out, reason, stories, themes, then, time, understanding, want , why
