Understand Quotes
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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
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We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
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All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey.
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I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason.
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Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.
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If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
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Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history.
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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
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I don't believe a thing about a curse. I don't understand how we can talk about a curse. You have to remember, God is blessed and man can't curse, no matter how hard they try.
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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.
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In school they told me I was a Jew, "a filthy Jew." At first I asked myself what exactly that was. But then I began to understand. I was a Jew, I was a member of the Jewish faith, the Jewish community. One time, when I was giving a reading at a school, someone asked me: "If it was so dangerous to be Jewish, why didn't you convert to Christianity?" My response was: "It's not as easy you think. When you're a Jew, you're a Jew.
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Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.
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Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin.
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If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.
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We are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.
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When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
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I don't always have to understand the people I love.
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It was hardly the first time she had confused him. He knew just enough to understand that he didn’t understand her.
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By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.
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No,you're officially banned from listening to us. Or thinking about this. Or even thinking about thinking about this, understand?
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I make people laugh hard; I'm a comic, that's just the way it is. And I make them laugh because I'm funny, not because I'm filthy. The subject matter is dirty, but the pictures I paint are really funny. A lot of comics don't understand that that's what it's about. It's just, "I'll be dirty and they'll laugh." Nobody's becoming a superstar that way.
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Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.
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In general, if you can’t imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you probably just don’t understand it yet.
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Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
