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• He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

  John Locke

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  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.371

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• I think if all men knew and understood who they are, and were aware of the divine source from whence they came, they would have feelings of kindness and kinship for each other that would change their whole way of living and bring peace on earth.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Kindness, Men, Thinking

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• I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

  John Fahey

  Records, Forget, Wasting My Time

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• The Church is our Mother, which means it is an internal voice. It is not a set of external rules. That's what isn't understood about Catholicism in this Protestant culture. It means that your conscience is formed by the Church, but in the end you're responsible for your own activities.

  Francis George

  Mother, Mean, Voice

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.

  Andre Dubus

  Dream, Writing, Black And White

  Source: thekingsenglish.wordpress.com

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• Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.

  John Lasseter

  Art, Thinking, Good Movie

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I don't think it's very difficult to bring a virginal, angst-ridden, hip-hop grunting white boy to the screen. Not that I have any experience with that. I don't know man. I understood where his head was at, because he was this 18-year-old cat that thought he was a man, but didn't really know what it meant to be a man.

  Josh Peck

  Cat, Boys, Men

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think my parents were worried when I said I wanted to be an actress, but they also understood what that feeling is like. Maybe if I had shone at anything at school they would have encouraged me to try that, but it has been the only thing I have ever wanted to do.

  Ruby Bentall

  School, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life. I never really understood heterosexual male relationships.

  Todd Phillips

  Mom, Real, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

  Ai Weiwei

  Writing, Interviews, Warhol

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Thinking, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

  Don DeLillo

  War, Office, Vietnam

  "Intensity of a Plot". Interview with Mark Binelli, www.guernicamag.com. July 17, 2007.

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• My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

  Fiona Apple

  Careers, Records, Want

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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• If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.

  Alan Bennett

  Broadway, Film, Made

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.

  Dave Barry

  Simple, Imagination, Common Sense

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Communication, Mean, Metaphysical

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.14, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

  Thomas Jefferson

  May, Subjects

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.571

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• Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

  Paulo Freire

  Assuming, Obvious, Teach

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.43, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.

  Alan Watts

  Beach, Moving, Book

  Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.54, Souvenir Press

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• The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.

  Isaac Asimov

  People, Lasts, Facts

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• Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hate, Believe, Soul

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• I would think that if you understood what sex education is, you would get down on your knees and worship a condom.

  Jane Fonda

  Sex, Thinking, Knees

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• I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

  Thomas Friedman

  War, Today, Cold

  Thomas L. Friedman (2000). “The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization”, p.14, Macmillan

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• The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies of evil against good in which 'terrorism' simply signified 'any doubt about the policies or character of Stalin.' All his political opponents were per se assassins. More than two 'terrorists' was a 'conspiracy'.

  Simon Sebag-Montefiore

  Character, Two, Evil

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• Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.

  Alan Keyes

  Rights, Order, Would Be

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