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There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why. -- Christopher Walken
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. -- Bryant H. McGill
I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity. -- Bryant H. McGill
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. -- Wynton Marsalis
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding. -- Jose Ferreira
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. -- Epicurus
No matter how many flaws we have, our God is so forgiving and understanding. He'll never leave you or forsake you. So that brings peace to me. -- Adrian Peterson
The key to understanding my career is that I was never into technology. From the beginning, I brought an outsider's point of view, which is why I write for a layman's publication. -- David Pogue
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. -- LaToya Jackson
What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning. -- Lester Holt
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. -- Edmund Burke
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. -- Alice Walker
I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it. -- Criss Angel
We don't need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like. -- Nick Harkaway
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. -- John Lennon
The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government. -- Geoff Mulgan
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. -- Bruce Jay Friedman
I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them. -- Alan Ball
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. -- Og Mandino
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. -- Steven Brust
Understanding why is never enough. -- Lucy Freeman
Knowing is never the same with understanding. -- Joshua Suya Pelicano
Conviction is having the mindset to never doubt your self-understanding -- Gino Norris
Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited. -- Nan Fairbrother
Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage. -- Meher Baba
Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled. -- Thomas Hobbes
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. -- Fay Weldon
Understanding that quitting is never an option, leaves winning as the only option. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation. -- Rajneesh
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm. -- John Dryden
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. -- Agnes Repplier
It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross. -- C. J. Mahaney
Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause. -- Suzy Kassem
It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again. -- Marisha Pessl
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Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything. -- Vladimir Kramnik
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. -- Jane Austen
Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given? -- Viggo Mortensen
Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely. -- Friedrich Schleiermacher
Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets. -- Peter Lynch
Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached? -- Jeffrey Rowland
Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father. -- Indira Gandhi
We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom. -- Rich Mullins
The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding. -- Walter Wink
Never undervalue the idea of partners. Understanding your strengths and then going out trying to find like-minded people who will be another pillar of your success. -- Rob Dyrdek
The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case. -- H. L. Mencken
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In business -- every business -- the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process. -- Donald Trump
When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined. -- Niels Diffrient
Fortunately my wife is understanding. When I come home from the races she never asks any questions, if I tell her I just ate a $380 hot dog. -- Tim Conway
The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is. -- Milton Friedman
One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding. -- Alice Walker
Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine. -- Emma Goldman
Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have. -- Orson Scott Card
You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help. -- Ted Dekker
We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem. -- Bruce Lee
Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities. -- Daniel Defoe
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart. -- Walter Savage Landor

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