Quotes 21 till 40 of 118.
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
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Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
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From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 121 -
I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly understood as the shining of the sun is visible at noonday, and that is, implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.
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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.
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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
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I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
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I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
The Naked Civil Servant (1968) Ch. 27 -
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.
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