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There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no… — Isaac Asimov
I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often… — John Irving
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and… — Ray Bradbury
What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It proceeds from your unconscious. So… — Woody Allen
Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes… — Bob Dylan
Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order… — Immanuel Kant
That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile… — Adam Duritz
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves. — V.S. Naipaul
The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand… — Carl Jung
The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to… — Carl Jung
Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do. — Pauline Kael
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the… — Hannah Arendt
Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning… — Hannah Arendt
The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we… — Hannah Arendt
If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a… — Thucydides
The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of… — Polybius
I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I was young. I'm very proud… — Roger Federer
People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have… — Jimmy Connors
One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer. — Robert Fitzgerald
Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand… — Sol LeWitt
The reason women don't vote for Republicans is not that they haven't had the impact of Republican policies spelled out in simple enough terms for… — Renee Ellmers
Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you… — Renee Ellmers
I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of… — Ada Lovelace
I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do… — Jack Kilby
In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to… — Debbie Allen

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