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• When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Understanding, Excited, Dislike

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• Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.

  Edward Witten

  Strong, Cousin, Progress

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• The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it

  Tim Crane

  Wine, Aesthetic, Tasting

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• Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
  As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Halloween, Night, Grieving

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• The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the anti-slavery cause to be ... the school in which human rights are more fully investigated and better understood and taught than in any other.

  Angelina Grimke

  School, Rights, Understanding

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• The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Law, Two, Perfect

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• I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

  H. G. Wells

  Women, Imagination, Men

  "Fictional character: Rowena". "Things to Come", 1936.

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• In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?

  Mary Blakely

  Motherhood, Reality, Opposites

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• Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

  Anton Chekhov

  History, Battle, Conflict

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• People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.

  Eugene Fama

  People, Would Be, Lucky

  "A Father of Modern Finance" by Rebecca Rolfes, www.chicagobooth.edu. 2013.

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• My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Mistake, Believe, Skills

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• I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Rights, Needs, Slave

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.15

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• Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Heart, Men, Mind

  "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" by Sarah Moore Grimke, Letter 8, 1837.

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• The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Men, Cost, He Man

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1684). “An essay on translated verse”, p.11

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• A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Love, Life, Weed

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• Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Religion

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.158

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• A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Trump, Caprice, Hypothesis

  Jerry A. Coyne (2010). “Why Evolution is True”, p.260, Oxford University Press

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• You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Communication, Doe, Information

  "Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home". Book by James Tiptree Jr, "I'm Too Big But I Love To Play", 1973.

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• in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Baby, Infancy, Heard

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.129

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• If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.

  Esther Hicks

  Creativity, Men, Creating

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• I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

  Betty Eadie

  Reality, Keys, Imagination

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• Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

  Rory Sutherland

  People, Google, Assuming

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• The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Discovery, Self

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• Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Hands, Design, Language

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• I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected--at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.

  Muriel Beadle

  Believe, Intelligent, Should Have

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