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Understanding Quotes
"Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected."
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"You can't build Europe against anyone."
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"I may not understand, but I am willing to admire."
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"The person with an itch can't understand why everyone's not scratching."
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"For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything."
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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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"The only way to get to know people is to look beyond their physical appearances."
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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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"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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"Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something."
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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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"Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking."
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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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"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things."
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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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"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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"The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe."
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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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"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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"Those who understand the problem are those who see it clearly."
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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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"The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it."
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"There is a difference between sin and sins. Sin is the root, sins are the fruit."
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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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"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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"Understanding of each other is the beginning of peace."
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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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"I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken."
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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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"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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"Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They were about to star rumors flighing around the sea about the son of poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay."
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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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"To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name."
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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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"At a certain level of learning and understanding,right or wrong ain't the issue, but different interest."
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"Worry is the destroyer of understanding."
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"Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; it leads you to think that every detail of the world, every voice, every word written or spoken has more than its literal meaning, that it tells us a Secret."
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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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"My brother taught me that there is a difference between being a hater and being ignorant. Being a hater implies you understand the principle in question, while being ignorant implies that you do not understand the principle in question, and therefore, have no right to critique."
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"The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs."
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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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