#understood

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them. ↗

— Peter Weir

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I write to understand as much as to be understood. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#angry #barry #done #full #go

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. ↗

— William Godwin

#everything #evil #sense #some #term

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. ↗

— William Godwin

#every #love #love is #measured #out

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend. ↗

— Asa Gray

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Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us. ↗

— George Grey

#better #bit #countryman #desert #distress

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about. ↗

— Brad Holland

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