Understand Quotes
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So we may look at this and say, ‘We are tampering with the earth.’ The earth is a twitchy system. It’s clear from the record that it does things that we don’t fully understand. And we’re not going to understand them in the time period we have to make these decisions. We just know they’re there. We may say, ‘We just don’t want to do this to ourselves.’ If it’s a problem like that, then asking whether it’s practical or not is really not going to help very much. Whether it’s practical depends on how much we give a damn.
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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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I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
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There are people who don't understand some of the core aspects of being a decent human being.
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The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
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Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
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When I said on national television I still struggle, a reparative therapist called me and said if you'll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent. And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they're struggling.
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I don't understand when you say I have an advantage because I am a woman.
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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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After all the years of spiritual work, ... I've realized this: that everything and everyone is precious beyond words. Everything and everyone is holy. And the point of our being on this sweet planet is to be of service to all of it. And when we understand this truth in our bones, joy fills our hearts.
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The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.
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But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.
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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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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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Fate is an obligation I don't understand - the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.
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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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Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
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Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.
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I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.
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It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.
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Though in application it works splendidly, we do not even understand the physical meaning of quantum mechanics, much less how it might be united with general relativity.
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Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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It's always good to be around people who get it and understand because it's a huge difference working on a black set. I can walk on a black set and not have to worry about my hair because they know.
