"A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?"
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"A foreign country can best be understood through its literature."
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"Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life."
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"I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart."
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"It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?"
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"Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown."
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"Love doesn't need to be understood, it needs to be demonstrated"
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"Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content."
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"My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood."
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"And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now. Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me."
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"No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive."
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"I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it."
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"Every moment is travel - if understood."
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"When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate."
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"Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood."
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"The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do."
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"It's a luxury to be understood."
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"I never understood actors who could just wait around."
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"The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained."
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"It doesn't matter if you're right, it matters if you are understood."
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