"Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning."
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"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood."
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"John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him."
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"If you understood him, it would not be God."
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"It is a luxury to be understood."
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"I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said."
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"I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that."
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"The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance."
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"Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center."
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"I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license."
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"I understood. I have understood. I do understand."
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"In most polls there are always about 5 percent of the people who 'don't know.' What isn't generally understood is that it's the same people in every poll."
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"That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away."
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"American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied."
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"Music was known and understood before words were spoken."
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"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
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"It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind."
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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."
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"One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood."
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"When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally."
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