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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. -- Eric Hoffer
Little by little, Leo [Messi] and I are understanding each other better. -- Neymar
Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other. -- Anne Tyler
How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other? -- Lester B. Pearson
I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with. -- Joshua Homme
I just want to open up the avenues for people to express themselves. That's what the media ought to be. It shouldn't just be a conveyer belt of shiny products to buy. It should be a way that we're all communicating and understanding each other. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings. -- Anton Chekhov
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them. -- Luigi Pirandello
The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain, cold, and heat; cars are there to overcome distances. Culture is the exception. Music, art, and all of the different cultural expressions are not going in that direction. They're not about comfort; they're about understanding each other. -- Pipilotti Rist
If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other. -- Elie Wiesel
We speak about understanding each other, having those conversations nationwide - culturally, historically - and yet there's a lot of gaps. So I want to assist with closing the gap of knowing about and hearing about our Latino communities in terms of literature, in terms of writing. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves. -- Sarah Gadon
This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer. -- Farrah Fawcett
I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well. -- Phylicia Rashad
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. -- Kevin Kelly
When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world. -- Damon Lindelof
I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences. -- John Denver
If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other. -- Richard Flanagan
Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks. -- Chris Chocola
At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other. -- James Tobin
It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding. -- Bede Griffiths
We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the world as a unified whole, where digital and analog experiences affect each other rather than transporting analog experiences into the digital realm. -- Evan Spiegel
After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there's just an understanding that we're all good people, let's be nice to each other. And Kiwis have that. I find the Kiwis have that. -- Evangeline Lilly
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time. -- Deepak Chopra
Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed. -- Laura Wasser
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen. -- Edward Zwick
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive. -- Lee Kuan Yew
I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines. -- Edward Snowden
Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other. -- Barack Obama
And without understanding, could each properly love the other? -- Anita Brookner
Peace is possible with understanding of each other.Understanding is love for one another. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention. -- Richard L. Evans
...a little kindness-love-smile-understanding-willingness to help each other may yet go a mighty long way in contemporary-rational-materialistic-world.... -- Isabella Koldras
We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created. -- Audre Lorde
Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other. -- Max de Pree
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. -- Franz Kafka
Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely. -- Friedrich Schleiermacher
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. -- Malcolm X
Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind"a mutual understanding of each other. I haven't felt this way in forever. -- Simone Elkeles
We don't understand each other. That's why there are so many bad things happening; a lot of it has to do with not understanding. -- Jeppe Hein
Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. -- Stephen Covey
Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire. -- Edmund White
There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa. -- John Dewey
The world could be a little less cruel, if we nurture each other while we grow; learn understanding while we transform and maintain a humble attitude whilst we succeed. -- Nikki Rowe
There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other. -- Richard Benjamin

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