Understand Quotes
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Haters are sometimes people who can't understand why everybody loves you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."
Miguel de Cervantes
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Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
Joni Mitchell
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Whatever had made the Dean take such a fancy to him, a cowardly, selfish, obstinate, ugly old fellow like him? He would never understand it. He took the piece of paper out of his pocket and looked at that too. Faith in God. God. A word he had always refused. But the Dean had said, put the word love in its place.
Elizabeth Goudge
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The greatest achievement of human technology is tools that allow us to create more than we understand.
W. Daniel Hillis
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I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore.
Deepa Mehta
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I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.
Eva Pigford
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
Victor Hugo
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I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can model, maybe in a computer, the processes that generate things like thoughts and feelings, and two, we can understand how to cure brain disorders, like Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Those are my two driving goals. One is more human-condition oriented, and one more clinical.
Edward Boyden
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
Hippocrates
