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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
Niccolo Machiavelli

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.
Avril Lavigne

Good, Bad, Around

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Harry S. Truman

Work, Peace, Down

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
Hillary Clinton

Freedom, Government, American

If you would judge, understand.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.
Mitt Romney

Dreams, Time, Dad

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T. S. Eliot

Nothing, Cannot, Happened

There are many things that I don't understand.
Billy Graham

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot

Time, Good, Give

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope

Reason, Learn, Soon

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich

Father, Either, King

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Age, Learn, Youth

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Thomas Carlyle

Great, Universe, Deal

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
Bill Gates

Life, Thinking, Year

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Pablo Picasso

Truth, Art, Lie

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
Edward R. Murrow

Confused, Anyone, Situation

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal

Love, Cannot, Reason

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Helen Rowland

Love, Happy, Woman

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.
Angelina Jolie

Work, Films, Supported

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
Richard Bach

Real, Sometimes, While

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Marcel Proust

Doctor, Sickness

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
Bill Watterson

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

Why, Old, Ideas

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Willie Nelson

Help, Suffering, Purpose

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci

Worse, Praise, Ill

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
Leo Durocher

Baseball, Few, Church

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard Dawkins

Faith, Work, Children

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
Madonna Ciccone

Life, Love, Humor

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Bertrand Russell

Name, Acquainted, Particular

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