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		Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Richard L. Evans
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Boomer Esiason
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Felix Frankfurter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donald Knuth
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pablo Picasso
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barbara Sukowa
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Helen Keller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Führer confirms my impressions of yesterday. He would like an understanding with Great Britain. He knows that war with the British will be hard and bloody, and knows also that people everywhere today are averse to bloodshed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Franz Halder
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ted Dekker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barry Ritholtz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anthony Lewis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gary Busey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I was in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So I had some of the most brilliant mathematical statistical minds in the country, who would put together the modern technology, if you like, of understanding the economy and tracking it and trying to influence it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Patrick Moynihan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		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
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jeff Hawkins
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edward Grey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Mollison
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Philippe Petit