Understood Quotes
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life. I understood suddenly why I hadn't had Nino, why Lila had had him. I wasn't capable of entrusting myself to true feelings. I didn't know how to be drawn beyond the limits. I didn't possess that emotional power that had driven Lila to do all she could to enjoy that day and that night. I stayed behind, waiting.
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The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.
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Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take
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If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.
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You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.
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I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.
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I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
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You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.
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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.
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I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?
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Mission [is] understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It [is] thus put in the context of the Trinity, not of ecclesiology or soteriology. The classical doctrine of the missio dei as God the Father sending the Son, and God the Father and the Son sending the Spirit [is] expanded to include yet another “movement”: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit sending the church into the world. Father Son Church World Spirit Holy Spirit Holy Father Son Doctrine Missions Movement Trinity Understood Missional Church
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Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.
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All these years later, the world knows who I am, ... When it was first released, nobody understood who I was.
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If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.
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In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
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Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
