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Tag Name "Misunderstanding" (188)

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The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not so conspicuous, in the handling of prepositions, those modest little connectives that hold the parts of a phrase or a sentence together. They are the joints of any language, what make it, literally, articulate.
Mary McCarthy
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We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstandin.
Barry Long
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Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
John Lennon
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Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.
Etty Hillesum
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It is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time.
Marcus Borg
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Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.
M. R. DeHaan
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The lectures you deliver may be wise and true, But I'd rather get my lessons by observing what you do. I may not understand the high advise you like to give, But there's no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.
Edgar Guest
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So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no exceptions. The (players) union is aware of that and they accept it.
Bud Selig
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Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.
Haruki Murakami
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy—for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?
Penelope Fitzgerald
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Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.
Dan Brown
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
Aga Khan IV
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Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.
Stone Gossard
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How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!
Orville Dewey
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Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
Stephen Jay Gould
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More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.
Peter Dicken
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Besides, he said breezily, were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature. She looked at him questioningly. Where would Romeo and Juliet be? Alive.
Julia Quinn
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When people ask me how I was able to make so much money in the market during a 20-year period, I would always say I did it off the misunderstandings of others.
Jim Cramer
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The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.
John Yoo
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There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
Henry James
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Kindness works simply and perseveringly it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.
Albert Schweitzer
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And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after.
Jean Ferris
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The most common misunderstanding of disruptive innovations is to overestimate their impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. Another common misunderstanding is to associate disruptive with good.
Geoffrey Moore
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