Understand Quotes
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But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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One should never condemn what one cannot understand.
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You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
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Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
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All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.
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Max Planck was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, because during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood general relativity, he would have gone to bed the way I did.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.
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All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.
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People really don't understand what actors do.
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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
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Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.
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I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.
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I just want to be worthy. I just want to be able to make people understand that okay, Eddie is still good at what he does, so we can now go and buy that ticket to his concert, and I can feel like they bought it and they got their money's worth.
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There is always magic to be summoned at any point. I love to live in a world of magic, but not a fake world of magic. We all really basically have a lot of magic... It’s only those of us who choose to accept it, that really understand it. It’s there for everyone. That’s the only thing that I feel I am able to give to people and that’s why I know that they respond to me because I try to give them only their own magic... not mine, but theirs.
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I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
