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		Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Walt Disney
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what did he say?' 'I don't know.' 'I thought you said you spoke gibberish?' 'I do. But your baby doesn't. I think he's speaking either pre-toddler nonsense, a form of infact burble or an obscure dialect of gobbledygook. In any event, I can't understand a word he's saying.' 'Oh.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jasper Fforde
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				R. K. Milholland
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Billy Joel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Steve Jobs
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Fyodor Dostoevsky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hermann Hesse
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Suicide is one concept I do not understand. To want to kill someone else, for a second, yes, but to want to kill oneself, never.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Agnes Moorehead
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		He would calculate, by reference to prophecies in the Old and New Testament, the exact date of this event; the date would pass, without the expected Advent, and he would be more than disappointed,—he would be incensed. Then he would understand that he must have made some slight error in calculation, and the pleasures of anticipation would recommence.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edmund Gosse
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Plato
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Dickens