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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. -- Carl Sagan
This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes. -- Aaron Klug
Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony. -- Okky Madasari
But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture. -- Haldan Keffer Hartline
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment. -- Dave Pelzer
When it comes to investments, I have to go to someone else to understand them, but then I have to make a judgment. I can't do that if I don't have a basic understanding myself. -- Gregory Meeks
My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff. -- Mary Barra
Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works. -- Carl Johan Calleman
Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled. -- Robert M. Pirsig
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. -- Ai Weiwei
I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding. -- Fred Alan Wolf
The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell -- Heinz Kohut
I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught. -- Michael Pollan
A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony. -- Okky Madasari
There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about. -- Tenzin Palmo
Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image. -- Berenice Abbott
There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework. -- Richard Davidson
One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.' -- Johan Galtung
And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future. -- Henry Taube

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