#understood

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed. ↗

— Vin Diesel

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Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#far #far less #jealousy #less #love

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#end #fit #i #i do #in the end

I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#became #book #books #could #deciding

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#like #misunderstood #who #writes

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#attitudes #china #circumstances #desires #despite

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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