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• You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

  Ernest Hemingway

  People, Stories, Short Story

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• It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood.

  Wally Olins

  Identity, Littles, Significant

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• Like I said, I always believed in the spirit realm. Whether or not I understood it or witnessed it or was involved in it. There wasn't an incident that made be believe it was real, like I said I had an interest in it and as I grew older I realized that there are some people that are doing this for real. That's when I realized this isn't just a Hollywood thing.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Real, Believe, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look like. I never understood snapshots. I was looking at them like, "This is horrible; that's not what a picture is supposed to look like." I was taught by these photos. So when I picked up the camera, though I had never done it before, I kind of already knew what I was doing.

  Jeff Vespa

  Kids, Thinking, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

  Maya Harris

  Growing Up, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

  Maya Harris

  School, Differences, Law

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was 16 when my father died, and I had a choice to come back and live in his house or I'd stay at the school. But I felt if my father wanted me to go to that school when I was 5, there must have been a reason - and I understood that reason when I was a teenager, because that school became the only place where I was safe.

  Rula Jebreal

  Father, Teenager, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hope there's a window that opens in American television where the rest of the world is viewed in a less censored light. There is something about the world outside the United States that is not understood here - that seems threatening to Americans.

  Rula Jebreal

  Light, United States, Television

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

  Christian Bale

  Blue, Cinema, Collars

  Source: collider.com

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• Peter Sarsgaard, he's an extraordinary actor, and I would say that Peter has really brought into my life and my sister's life a sense of presence as an actor that I never really understood or knew about until I met him. They've been together for a very long time, and he introduced me to the idea of the presentation.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Ideas, Long, Together

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Two, Genius

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.1, 谷月社

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• There's been more than one time when I've said something, and sort of the middle of what I've said is not said but thought, and therefore assumed to be understood, which is a ridiculous assumption on my part, but sometimes gets me in trouble.

  Howard Dean

  Ridiculous, Assumption, Sometimes

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• While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Strong, Misunderstood, Use

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• The whole story of the Father's Christ-exalting plan of redeeming love, from eternity to eternity, must be told, or the radical reorientation of life for which the gospel calls will not be understood, and the required total shift from man-centeredness to God-centeredness, and more specifically from self-centeredness to Christ-centeredness, will not take place.

  J. I. Packer

  Father, Men, Self

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• I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Opera, Firsts, Excellent

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• The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.

  Ronald Reagan

  School, Law, Culture

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• We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

  Trevanian

  Desire, Enjoy, Obvious

  Trevanian (2005). “The Summer of Katya: A Novel”, p.22, Crown

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• I first understood the changes that were necessary in this world, because the waiters in the restaurant, when I cried, used to say, "Leave her on the hillside to die. She's only a girl baby." I think they said it somewhat as a joke, maybe not, but it made me understand that being born female in this world was very different from being born male.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Girl, Baby, Thinking

  "VIDEO: Legendary Detroit Activist Grace Lee Boggs Turns 100; Watch Never-Before-Aired Interview". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 27, 2015.

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• The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hints, Half, Quartets

  1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

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• My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mother, Men, Effort

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• In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Thinking, Understanding, Doe

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• ...for me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood .... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God

  Albert Ayler

  Prayer, Play, Long

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• Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.

  Anatole France

  Beautiful, Errors, Order

  Anatole France (2015). “The Amethyst Ring: Works by France”, p.75, 谷月社

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• We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Writing, Thinking, Expectations

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• Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lying, Integrity, Humble

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