Understood Quotes
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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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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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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 experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
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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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Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.
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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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You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.
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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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The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
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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I’d have to look up the details myself, but mostly because by the time he’d understood the technology it would have been replaced by something else.
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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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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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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
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In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.
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One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
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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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In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
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I think certainly he's concerned that he's not going to get the endorsement, but we understood what the rules were from the beginning and we ought to stick to the rules.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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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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Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.
