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• I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

  Lil Wayne

  Tired, People, Want

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• Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Freedom, Real

  "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.

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• It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Inspiring, Wisdom

  Diary (1843)

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• Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

  C. Wright Mills

  Anger, Understanding, Society

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.3, Oxford University Press

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• There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Perfect, Solitude, Fellowship

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.129, e-artnow

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• Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed

  Frank Capra

  Writing, Racket, Whole

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• Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

  Carl Jung

  Understanding, Happens

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• More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Equality, Reality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspiration, Understanding, Quantum Physics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wisdom, Nature, Understanding

  Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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• She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

  Anne Ursu

  Nice, Flower, Plastic

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• Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

  Albert Camus

  Forgotten, Used, Martyr

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• I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Nov 27, 2011

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• But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Figures, Found, Stills

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• Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Understanding, Selfless

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

  Walt Disney

  Communication, Moving Forward, Language

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• The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

  Alexander Haig

  Military, Eyebrows, Political

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• Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Love, Book, Communication

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1971). “The Little Package: Pages on Literature and Landscape from a Traveling Bookman's Life”, Books for Libraries

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• I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Thinking, Bars

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• If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Christian, Religious

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• As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

  Cass Sunstein

  Race, Matter, Corny

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• As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

  Boris Pasternak

  World, Saws, Planning

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• Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

  Marie Curie

  Fear, Understanding, Meaningful Life

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• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Appreciate, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.347, Harvard University Press

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• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

  T. S. Eliot

  Communication, Writing, Poetry

  1929 Dante.

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