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Understanding Quotes
"You can't build Europe against anyone."
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"Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected."
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"I may not understand, but I am willing to admire."
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"In their minds, it seems as though people don't often have the same answers, but in their hearts, they do very frequently have the same questions."
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"Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self."
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"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
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"Once you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct."
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"For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything."
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"At a certain level of learning and understanding,right or wrong ain't the issue, but different interest."
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"We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things."
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"Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something."
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"The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe."
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"Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking."
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"A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view."
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"To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map."
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"Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives."
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"The only way to get to know people is to look beyond their physical appearances."
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"What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was it having absolute faith that someone was there at your back? Was it knowing someone so well that they instantly understood why you did the things you did-and shared those same beliefs?"
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"Those who understand the problem are those who see it clearly."
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"The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player."
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"There is no way to communicate to a dog that one is sorry that we live in the world but it is the only place that one can live. Or maybe there is no way not to communicate that."
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"In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something."
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"Everything has a reason, but the moment to know the reason would be revealed the day dots are connected."
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"I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken."
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"We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards."
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"We have come to love darkness of religion rather than striving to understand how the world is supposed to function."
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"Worry is the destroyer of understanding."
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"Understanding of each other is the beginning of peace."
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"There is a difference between sin and sins. Sin is the root, sins are the fruit."
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"The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it."
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"To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name."
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"From the very beginning Ihad felt a definite contact with Yeamon, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself."
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"I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did."
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"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."
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"It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you."
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"So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all."
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"I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding.""
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"When we understand people; when we understand situations;when we understand what matters;when we understand the why's, the what's and the how's;when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others."
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"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood."
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"We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves."
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"In most cases, people argue over the term God, without having the perception of another person's own idea of the word. Hence, often people with an atheistic perspective of the world attribute the God of many religious individuals to be an angry, authoritarian and vengeful God who acts like a human being and lives in the clouds or in heaven. But the irony is, most religious individuals do not conceive God in an anthropomorphic or angry way. Rather, in their personal psychological domain of religious or spiritual beliefs, they conceive God in more abstract, spiritual and merciful way."
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"I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding."
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"What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others."
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"It is necessary to understand your destiny because you were created for a purpose."
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"What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations."
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"People just don't understand, they aren't your level and they won't get there soon. So move because you will fall from there!"
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"Every man produces only to the capacity of their philosophies of life or doctrines as we Christians call it."
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