Understand Quotes
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We hide our racism. We just go on about our lives - may I say, white Canadians go on about their lives. African-Canadians understand racism, Indigenous Canadians understand racism: they see it all the time, they live with it.
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My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.
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I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.
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In terms of how I understand the online world, it doesn't just work in the old-fashioned way. You're not going to see billboards and a bunch of commercials. It's all viral.
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
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He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
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...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.
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We, in the organizing committee ourselves, have no idea about how this money will be spent, as to the breakdown... I also understand that the IOC has stated it is too soon and too early to tell.
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Master's degree in journalism served several purposes. It helped me to break down and understand scripts. And the discipline of getting my master's gave me a certain amount of confidence. I don't think college is the only path, but I enjoyed it and it worked out very well for me. I had some good friends with whom I could get a little crazy, but still be responsible. It was the perfect bridge from living at home to independence. I also love learning. I might have been a professional student and earned a couple of doctorates, if I didn't have to pay bills.
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That so few understand me is why I am treasured.
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When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.
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So you don’t love him. Why would you look for love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?
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When you truly understand one thing—a hawk, a juniper tree, a rock—you will begin to understand everything.
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How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?
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We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.
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In order to become a master, you need to emulate. If you're going to be as big as Warhol has become in art, then you have to have younger generations who are exploring your work and trying to understand it like a language.
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Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.
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It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.
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I don't understand people's weekends. They just plan to go to clubs and drink and dance and go home, and then do it over again.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.
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Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
