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Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word.… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
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…I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food… — Harold Bell Wright Copy Share Image
'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth'… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished,… — Christopher Love Copy Share Image
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Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
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I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
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I was aware of it but I think I was aware of it abstractly, theoretically. You know I understood who Edward Snowden… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps,… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
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