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Understanding Quotes
"Don't keep a man guessing too long he's sure to find the answer somewhere else"
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Mae West
"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
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Groucho Marx
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other"
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Jane Austen
"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood."
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Charlie Chaplin
"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."
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Aristotle
"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms "
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Socrates
"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die"
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Franz Kafka
"The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding"
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"To understand the future, you do not need techno-autistic jargon, but the wisdom of the elders"
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Things always become obvious after the fact"
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Instinct is something which transcends knowledge."
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Nikola Tesla
"To be clear is to be kind."
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Angelina Jolie
"Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense."
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Robert Frost
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us"
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Socrates
"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood."
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Elbert Hubbard
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