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• What is less well understood about her after her husband’s death is the way she kept focused on the ideas of non-violence. She never abandoned that. She focused on the use of non-violence as a way to settle human conflicts.

  Julian Bond

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• I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

  Mandy Patinkin

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• With a book called ‘Keeping Score,’ I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn’t know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.

  Linda Sue Park

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  If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.

  Niels Bohr

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• After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.

  Paul Henderson

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  It will be of little avail to the people if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

  James Madison Jr

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• I’ve never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

  Arsenio Hall

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• I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You’re knocking on everyone’s door trying to get them to believe what you’re doing.

  Emeli Sandé

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• I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

  Emeli Sandé

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• Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.

  William Howard Taft

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• I think the point to be understood is that we’re all different. I’ve never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn’t go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, ‘This is the way you should act.’

  Ian McKellen

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• A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

  Frederick Douglass

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• I’ve been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it’s that once you hit a few shots, you’ll become addicted.

  Fred Durst

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• And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

  Black Elk

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• No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

  Frank Norris

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• As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

  Benny Goodman

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  I never understood people who don’t have bookshelves.

  George Plimpton

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• The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

  Ben Affleck

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• I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

  Trevor Dunn

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• I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn’t allow us to waste anything.

  Ted Nugent

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