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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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"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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"At a certain level of learning and understanding,right or wrong ain't the issue, but different interest."
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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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"We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things."
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"For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything."
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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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"The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe."
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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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"Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking."
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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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"Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something."
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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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"I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did."
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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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"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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"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 brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."
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"The only way to get to know people is to look beyond their physical appearances."
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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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"Worry is the destroyer of 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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"Those who understand the problem are those who see it clearly."
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"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood."
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"There is a difference between sin and sins. Sin is the root, sins are the fruit."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"It is necessary to understand your destiny because you were created for a purpose."
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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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"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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"We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Every man produces only to the capacity of their philosophies of life or doctrines as we Christians call it."
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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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"I've seen what you're going to understand, dear.It made me patient when confronting your temper."
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