Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness — Aya Kito Copy Share Image
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood. — Victor Wooten Copy Share Image
Being pregnant is a wonderful thing. I have never understood why people make such a big deal of it though. — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
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Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
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My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty…The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading,… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I… — Philip Arthur Fisher Copy Share Image
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial… — Galt Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a… — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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