#understood

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. ↗

— Paul Dirac

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The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#buyers #due #earn #exchange #goods

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

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One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#anywhere #blaming #circumstances #day #even

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#every #i #must #question #sentence

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately. ↗

— Peter Falk

#did #i #i think #john #never

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind. ↗

— Charles Bronson

#anguish #course #detached #felt #happening

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. ↗

— James Buchan

#antiquity #commerce #cycle #famine #feast

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

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