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• In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.

  Tom Ford

  Honesty, Adults, Ends

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• Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Home, Mean

  "Drain the swamp and there will be no more mosquitoes" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2002.

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• The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Thinking, Way, Sociology

  Pierre Bourdieu, John B. Thompson (1991). “Language and Symbolic Power”, p.207, Harvard University Press

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• Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has yet to be understood, however, is the manner in which Egypt inherited its cultural elements from the lands of the North-West. This fact is not known today because of the threat it poses to Rome and London, the Vatican and Crown, and to all those who have profited from the suppression of knowledge.

  Michael Tsarion

  Egypt, Rome, Land

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• What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

  Paul Valery

  Simple, Complicated

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• Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

  Barack Obama

  Justice, Recognition, Grows

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• The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign and instrument of intimate union with God, of the unity of the whole of mankind, and of the personal duty to adhere more closely to her.

  Pope John Paul II

  Light, Faithful, Unity

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• To demarcate [words in way that changes the meaning] is simply to speak a different language than everyone else. And I do not accept semantic games like that. [...] We need to use words as they are actually used and understood. We can correct errors and inconsistencies and make distinctions. But we can't try to foist an alien language on people.

  Richard Carrier

  Errors, Games, People

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• Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

  Susan Blackmore

  Design, Mind, Body

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• By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.

  Karl Marx

  Fashion, Aristocracy, Banking

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.334, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The holy mystery of the day of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost, is to be understood in the following manner: the spirit of man must be completed and perfected by the Holy Spirit, that is, it must be sanctified, illuminated, and divinized by the Holy Spirit. This holy mystery is realized continually in the Church of Christ and because of this the Church is really a continuous Pentecost.... From Holy Pentecost, the day of the Holy Spirit, every God-like soul in the Church of Christ is an incombustible bush which continuously burns and is inflamed with God and has a fiery tongue within it.

  Justin Popovic

  Men, Soul, Church

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• Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Men, Missing, Favors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In some ways I'm oddly traditional, I've been a serial monogamist since I was 12. I've always tried to work hard and get good grades and be a good person, but I feel like I've also always had a strange defiance of authority or the status quo, I've never understood why things always have to be just one way.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Hard Work, Way, Strange

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and by people outside Africa.

  Vieux Farka Toure

  People, Mali, Music Is

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• I've been on a major label for 14 years. I've always wanted as many people as possible to hear my music, and it definitely made sense for the majority of my career to be on a major label, on a distribution level, to be in people's faces and be out there, and have access to major labels' incredible machine, even though they have not understood or haven't been invested in what I was doing.

  DJ Shadow

  Years, Careers, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

  Franklin Foer

  Thinking, Hands, Islam

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.

  Umberto Eco

  Done, Territory, Century

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.

  Amy Koppelman

  Misunderstood, Has Beens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The message I understood was this: Just don't get caught!

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Messages, Caught

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• When I was 13, I saw him [Elvis] perform live and I suddenly understood what sex is all about. I was screaming at the top of my lungs.

  Raquel Welch

  Sex, Saws, Lungs

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• I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's about the design of how you talk to another human being; it's the design of speech; it's the design of everything we do. We need to be better at listening, and we need to aim more directly at understanding and being understood.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Essence, Design, Understanding

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• The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Reality, Infinite, Concepts

  "Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science". Book by Werner Heisenberg, 1958.

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• Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.

  Susan Meissner

  Children, Sky, Knowing

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• The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

  B. Joseph Pine II

  Admission, Compelling, Versus

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• Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to “good as new” and instead employ a “better than new” aesthetic. They understood that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value. Because after mending, the bowl's unique fault lines were transformed into little rivers of gold that post repair were even more special because the bowl could then resemble nothing but itself.

  Teresita Fernandez

  Unique, Rivers, Broken

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