Understand Quotes
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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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No one understand a word I say. I’m beginning to think the fault lies within.
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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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The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them.
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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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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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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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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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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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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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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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The war is singing its last verse, and it requires every effort from all who would call themselves men. You will understand that, won’t you?
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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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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
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I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.
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There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The Government has no particular right to prevent you from speaking in a technical manner even if it is inconvenient for them to understand.
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Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!
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That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
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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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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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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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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.
