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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature. by Abigail Adams

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.

Abigail Adams
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It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

Albert Einstein
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Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. by Ambrose Bierce

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Ambrose Bierce
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping i... by Charles de Gaulle

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

Charles de Gaulle
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Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

Dave Barry
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I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

David Chang
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Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, withou... by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at them.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in int... by Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

Jack Kornfield
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Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

James Allen
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If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

M. Scott Peck
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...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.

Megan McCafferty
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To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion... by Mencius

To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.

Mencius
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The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.

Paul Fry
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Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of th... by Paulo Freire

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

Paulo Freire
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We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.

Peter Adamson
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In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain. by Plautus

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

Plautus
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Pain is what I feed from when nothing else will nourish the noxious fury in my heart. It’s what I cling to when everything else—everyone else—slips right between my grasping fingers.

Rachel Vincent
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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

Rudolf Arnheim
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Soren Kierkegaard
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