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• For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Religious, Pain

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• The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.

  Louis Pasteur

  Beautiful, Greek, Enthusiasm

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• Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels.

  Lisa Gansky

  Mind, Railroads, Firsts

  Lisa Gansky (2010). “The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing”, p.9, Penguin

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• Everywhere sex is understood to be something females have that males want.

  Donald Symons

  Sex, Males, Female

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• Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

  Tom Chatfield

  Proxy, Attentiveness

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• I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

  Aya Kito

  Real, Illness, Weak

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• What an amazing thing to feel known and loved, to feel understood, to walk through life with another person.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Walks, Feels, Persons

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.43, Penguin

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• America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that's what will get us on the right track now, as well.

  Benjamin Carson

  Hard Work, Creativity, Responsibility

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Police, Poor

  "OSCARS Q&A: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. December 30, 2012.

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• The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.

  Werner Herzog

  Wall, Real, Drama

  "'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.

  Hank Williams III

  School, Wish, Together

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• I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio

  Michael Dumontier

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I grew up in church and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and the community in the city that you're in or the town that you're in and live effectively and be informed and be gracious with people.

  Shane Harper

  Thinking, Cities, People

  "Disney Channel sitcom star Shane Harper tackles big screen and big question – Is God real?". Interview With John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word. Let's make an example. Take the word gay. Fifty years ago, gay meant exclusively cheerfulness, lighthearted excitement, merry or bright colors. Today this word has a different meaning. You won't call a cheerful person gay because it could be understood as something else.

  Ali Sina

  Mean, Gay, Color

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song, and then figure out who you are as an artist because, once you know how to write a good song, you can dress it in any kind of clothing.

  Lights

  Song, Writing, Artist

  Source: coogradio.com

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• The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

  Sigmund Freud

  Wish, Able, Aviation

  Sigmund Freud (2013). “Leonardo da Vinci”, p.75, Routledge

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• I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could fit together. That was a really fun game to figure out how that worked.

  Margaux Williamson

  Fun, Struggle, Games

  "'This Flat-Screen World'". Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith, logger.believermag.com. May 18, 2014.

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• Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.

  Lars Ulrich

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

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• I don't think I've ever tried to be something that I'm not. People do that for you. People try to pigeonhole you. People tried typecasting me, before they even saw me in anything else. I've never understood that. I was like, "Why don't you wait until my next project, before you start telling my what my career is going to look like, for the next 10 years?" I've never let it set me back because I always knew the world would try to do that for me, anyway.

  Chris Colfer

  Thinking, Careers, Years

  "Chris Colfer Talks STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, Chances of Adapting His Book THE LAND OF STORIES Into a Movie, and GLEE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 5, 2013.

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• I went through a change in my life and my career where I finally understood how to train and prepare. I finally understood what it meant, and I've had so many fantasies about being able to go back and be 16 again. And redo parts of my high school career. Redo all of my college career. Redo my attempt to make an Olympic team.

  Chael Sonnen

  Team, School, College

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

  Laurie Anderson

  Different Experiences, Different, Looks

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

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• I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me.

  Kate Winslet

  Looks, Actors, Actresses

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

  Jack Nicholson

  Bigs, Mystical

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• I remember during Oscar season, the thing I hated most was being talked to differently; people treat you differently. And then I suddenly understood why celebrities can be so weird; it's hard to act normal when no-one treats you normally.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  People, Oscars, Normal

  "Jennifer Lawrence: Natural Talent". Interview with Debbie McQuoid, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• I remember listening to Sugar Free and Jay Z and I never really understood some of the stuff they used to say until years later. Then you hear it again like, Damn that's crazy. I just got what he's talking about.

  Schoolboy Q

  Crazy, Talking, Years

  Source: www.vibe.com

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