"If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives."
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"I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would."
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"To be understood is to prostitute oneself"
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"What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood."
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"I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me."
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"Have read little and understood less."
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"Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins."
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"It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims."
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"One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear."
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"I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)"
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"Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple."
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