Understand Quotes
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I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.
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It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
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The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.
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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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When I wanted someone to give me the world, you accepted me and smiled and let me know that you were my girl. When I wanted fancy things- gold watches, diamond rings, you gave me your hand ’cause only you could understand.
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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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In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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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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You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
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I wanted to go from seeing the individual patient to seeing the plural - the whole population as a market. You want to see the larger population, yet at the same time you need to understand the impact of decisions on individuals.
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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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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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Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
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If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you understand that?
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Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
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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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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
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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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I have improved a lot, but I would like to improve more, to be better defensively and understand the play better.
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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 don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.
