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  • Ernest Hemingway Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand.
    Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 7
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Barbara Kruger Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Do you understand what's going on?
    Not at all, he shouted back. I can almost prove this can't be happening.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 19 (p. 330)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • William Saroyan Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Douglas Adams Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Boomer Esiason Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Victor Kiam Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
    Victor Kiam
    American businessman (1926 - 2001)
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  • Stephen Hawking Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Alfred Adler Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Ben Foster Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get to work with? There are a lot of variables in the job. What I'm drawn to is things that I don't completely understand maybe, and want to get a better feel for it.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Leo Tolstoy Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Malcolm Forbes Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Tim O'Brien Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
    Press Conference, September 1 1992 [6]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bruce Jackson First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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