Understood Quotes
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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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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.
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..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.
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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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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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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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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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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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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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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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All these years later, the world knows who I am, ... When it was first released, nobody understood who I was.
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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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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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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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Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.
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I didn’t tell him that it was all stored as binary information on rapidly spinning shiny discs, partly because I’d have to look up the details myself, but mostly because by the time he’d understood the technology it would have been replaced by something else.
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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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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
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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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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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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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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.
