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The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences,… — Noam Chomsky
The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life — Dennis Prager
Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the… — Nelson Mandela
God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And… — Michael Leunig
When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to… — Stephen Covey
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a… — Natan Sharansky
My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy… — Joshua Chamberlain
If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists. — George Orwell
The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling… — C.S. Lewis
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at… — William Gaddis
One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. — Colum McCann
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted. — William Jennings Bryan
The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore… — Dane Rudhyar
Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way… — Benjamin Alire Saenz
I understood. I have understood. I do understand. — Isaac Newton
There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is… — Carl Van Vechten
It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives. — L. Ron Hubbard
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate… — Carl Jung

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