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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the pri...

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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the pri...

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I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can b...

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I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to ...

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I understand women" ... There's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just...

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I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in pe...

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The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisher...

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If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Th...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Witch Of Portobello

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christm...

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Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance ...

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I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand

Much can be gained be contrasting a theory with its alternatives, even ones that look too extreme to...

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Steven PinkerThe Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was jud...

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We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we ...

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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about G...

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Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to le...

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Werner HeisenbergPhysics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

I hate when someone drives my car and resets all the radio presets. I don't understand it. If I was ...

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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often rac...

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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality...

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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse...

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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as...

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If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always bee...

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I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it i...

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You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness f...

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It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand ...

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To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at al...

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are ...

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You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my kno...

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People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what c...

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We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in hi...

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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect ...

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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the ...

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I canalmost understandwhypeopleleapfrombridges.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's sim...

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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it...

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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing c...

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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the ...

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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.

Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whe...

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You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

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Gordon B. HinckleyStanding for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.

That's what I thought, too," he said at last, "when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folk...

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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad m...

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Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly ...

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What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of ...

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The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that ...

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John Gardner (British writer)The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike...

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My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

Darling,You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am wri...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says,...

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I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand ...

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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and ...

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For an instant he was able to cross the line and understand this strange loyalty of Jew to Jew. Thos...

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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be...

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If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.

People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in ...

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To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counteri...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proport...

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We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

I just wish I could understand my father.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.