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Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

~Aleister Crowley

Topics: Any Arts Branch Comprehension Difficult Errors Judgment Magic More Most Opportunity Other Physics Practice Sciences Than

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I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

~Alva Noto

Topics: Balance Between Comprehension Emotional Intellectual Keep Try Understanding

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Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

~Annie Jump Cannon

Topics: Allies Also Comprehension Creation Encourages Great Him His Intelligence Lessons Man Nature Power Relatively Shows Small Sphere Teaching Unity

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If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.

~Antony Gormley

Topics: Become Beyond Brush Comprehension Engage People Speak Work You Your

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War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.

~Carlos Saavedra Lamas

Topics: Comprehension Culture End Even Implies Interests Lack Means Mutual National Undermining War

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I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.

~Daniel Tosh

Topics: Beyond Comprehension Holding Idea Meaner No Idea People Puppets Slightly Them Version Want Watch Weirdo Why

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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Topics: Ability Almost Also Comprehension Develop Find Global His Include Intelligence Make Man Men Peaceful Sentence Solution Suicide Terrifying Think Thought War Weapons Would You

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Human life is beyond comprehension.

~Friedrich Durrenmatt

Topics: Beyond Comprehension Human Human Life Life

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Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

~Gene Robinson

Topics: Always Best Body Comprehension Dynamic Exists Faith Fixed Flawed God May Our Our World Outside Partial Process Some Truth Unchanging Understanding Will World

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