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Efforts to deny justice only intensify the pain of the victims' families, who have already endured more than any of us can fathom. – Samantha Power	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What's interesting is that four years ago Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had the same view that I just expressed to you. It's thousands of years of culture and history is just being changed at warp speed. It's hard to fathom why it is this way. – Jeb Bush	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I take serious issue when somebody who's done a little non-fighting time in Iraq, and is not a Middle East or Islamic scholar, claims to know better than our President and Secretary of State how to fathom the motivations of terrorists, or how to refer to them beyond the term that best describes them -- terrorists. – Bob Jones	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Being productive at that age is a remarkable feat and it's hard to fathom that he could really do it. – Brett Hull	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I can't fathom that it would be so difficult to place a catheter line, it really sounds like it was a disorganized mess. – Joseph Cohen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes. – Vanna Bonta	added by quotable 9 years ago
The mind holds a specific image of who we currently are, not who we are yet to become. Subconscious fears change since it can't fathom life as the new-self. In that, it will fight, create stories, excuses and limiting theories on why one should remain where they are. Why would it do such a thing? Because it's what it knows. It knows it exists in the current reality and has no guarantees that it will exist in the new one. It also knows you (its host) is alive with the current reality and has no guarantees if you will be alive if you make the transition to the new one. Just trust in that you're enabling in the divine will of the universe to unfold in order to move the world forward. Yes, your work will elevate the level of human consciousness. That is how important you are! – Ahmed Korayem	added by anonymous 10 years ago
You know, my Friends, with what a brave CarouseI made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and LineAnd "Up-and-down" by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, IWas never deep in anything but - Wine. – from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel. – George Du Maurier	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel. – George Du Maurier	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Efforts to deny justice only intensify the pain of the victims' families, who have already endured more than any of us can fathom.

– Samantha Power

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What's interesting is that four years ago Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had the same view that I just expressed to you. It's thousands of years of culture and history is just being changed at warp speed. It's hard to fathom why it is this way.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I take serious issue when somebody who's done a little non-fighting time in Iraq, and is not a Middle East or Islamic scholar, claims to know better than our President and Secretary of State how to fathom the motivations of terrorists, or how to refer to them beyond the term that best describes them -- terrorists.

– Bob Jones

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Being productive at that age is a remarkable feat and it's hard to fathom that he could really do it.

– Brett Hull

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I can't fathom that it would be so difficult to place a catheter line, it really sounds like it was a disorganized mess.

– Joseph Cohen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.

– Vanna Bonta

added by quotable
9 years ago

The mind holds a specific image of who we currently are, not who we are yet to become. Subconscious fears change since it can't fathom life as the new-self. In that, it will fight, create stories, excuses and limiting theories on why one should remain where they are. Why would it do such a thing? Because it's what it knows. It knows it exists in the current reality and has no guarantees that it will exist in the new one. It also knows you (its host) is alive with the current reality and has no guarantees if you will be alive if you make the transition to the new one. Just trust in that you're enabling in the divine will of the universe to unfold in order to move the world forward. Yes, your work will elevate the level of human consciousness. That is how important you are!

– Ahmed Korayem

added by anonymous
10 years ago

You know, my Friends, with what a brave CarouseI made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and LineAnd "Up-and-down" by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, IWas never deep in anything but - Wine.

– from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.

– William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

– George Du Maurier

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

– George Du Maurier

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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