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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the… — Leo Rosten
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well… — Donald Rumsfeld
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims… — Jeffrey Sachs
I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood. — Marilyn vos Savant
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can… — Erwin Schrodinger
I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in… — Will Self
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood. — Ayrton Senna
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and… — Hu Shih
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to… — Beverly Sills
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher… — Nina Simone
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and… — Wole Soyinka
No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was… — Bruce Springsteen
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. — Laurence Sterne
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was. — J. Michael Straczynski
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. — Igor Stravinsky
If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world. — Adora Svitak
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees;… — Radhanath Swami
What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism,… — Radhanath Swami
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. — Jonathan Swift
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. — Jonathan Swift
At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't… — Wislawa Szymborska
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. — William Howard Taft

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