Quotes 101 till 118 of 118.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
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We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.
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We understood, growing up - 'cause it was taught in our family home, my mom and dad - to respect women, for instance. To respect yourself. That you respect your name. Those are the kind of things we were taught.
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
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When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.
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When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
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When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.
Nietzsches Zarathustra (1988) -
When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.
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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
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With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002) -
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
Radicals in Robes (2009 edition), Basic Books
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