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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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"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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"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
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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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"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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"Everything has a reason, but the moment to know the reason would be revealed the day dots are connected."
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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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"We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe."
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"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood."
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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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"Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century."
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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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"Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something."
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"The only way to get to know people is to look beyond their physical appearances."
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"When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing."
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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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"I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did."
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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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"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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"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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"Understanding of each other is the beginning of peace."
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"Those who understand the problem are those who see it clearly."
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"There is a difference between sin and sins. Sin is the root, sins are the fruit."
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"Believe it or not, you and your enemies want many of the same things and share values."
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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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"Not by discovering new wow things you are able to understand the truth about nature, but by changing the very fundamental way of perceiving anything you've ever seen in daily life."
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"To have seen something means it has come into one's understanding. To have known something means it has come into one's knowledge. There is a vast difference between 'seeing' and 'knowing'."
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"When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry."
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"I've seen what you're going to understand, dear.It made me patient when confronting your temper."
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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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"Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?"
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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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"We scientists perceive it as the Truth that will give us absolute understanding of the universe " which is impossible at the moment for a young species like us. On the other hand, the mystics perceive the Ultimate Truth, to be the attainment of Absolute Divinity, which all the religious giants experienced. But this attainment, is nowhere near the actual Ultimate Truth " it is only a subjective experience of the mind, evoked by specific internal and external stimuli."
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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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"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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"Worry is the destroyer of understanding."
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"It is necessary to understand your destiny because you were created for a purpose."
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