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"How can finite GRASP infinity" »John Dryden
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"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the GRASP of youth, is that of Not Going." »J.B. Priestley
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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his GRASP - or what's a heaven for" »Robert Browning
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"GRASP the subject, the words will follow." »Cato the Elder
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"It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their GRASP." »La Rochefoucauld
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"It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his GRASP." »James Ramsey
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"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not GRASP." »John Berry
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"Human mind can GRASP everything in the universe; but it cannot change everything!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our GRASP, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The controversial overachiever is someone whose GRASP exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive." »Fran Lebowitz
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"Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of GRASP... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to GRASP the world, but to change it." »Colin Wilson
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"Love is the only way to GRASP another human being in the innermost core of his personality." »Victor Frankl
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"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we GRASP them by the blade or the handle." »James Russell Lowell
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"The roads to the stars are open only to those who GRASP the great thoughts!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The aging process has you firmly in its GRASP if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." »Doug Larson
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"Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart GRASP." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to GRASP the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th." »Roy Blount Jr.
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"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to GRASP the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability." »Vannevar Bush
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"The thing we want eludes our GRASP, Some other thing is given; sometimes Our wish is gained, and gifts unsought Are ours; these all are God?s own work." »Hindu Poetess
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"True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and GRASP them with your understanding, but also will and do them." »Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
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"We never fully GRASP the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be." »William James
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"Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can GRASP the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion." »Lao Tzu
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"Repeat the truth so that the dull can GRASP it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker’s beak making holes in tree trunks!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Every Communist must GRASP the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' Our principle is that the Communist Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party." »Mao Zedong
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"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can GRASP it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it." »Albert Einstein
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"I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot GRASP. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn a lesson." »George Washington Carver
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"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to GRASP any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." »Alexander Graham Bell
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"I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the GRASP of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling." »T. S. Eliot
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"The best things in life are nearest Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not GRASP at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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