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• I write to understand as much as to be understood. -- Elie Wiesel
• Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that mayest understand.
  -- St. Augustine...
• Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
  Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. -- Marie Curie...
• That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
  -- Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City...
• If you happen to think that you understand everything that is going on about you, it is likely that you are hopelessly confused.
  It is not met to be understood, but it is met to be observed and commented upon....
• No name, no matter how simple, can be correctly understood over the phone.
  -- Murphy's Twenty-First Law...
• Thou great First Cause, least understood.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Universal Prayer, Stanza 2...
• First study the enemy. Seek weakness. -- Romulan Commander, "Balance of Terror," stardate 1709.2.
• For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.