Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

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I don't expect to be understood at all. ― Kanye West

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That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. ― Christopher Hitchens

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Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. ― Terry Pratchett

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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. ― Arthur C. Clarke

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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. ― Douglas Adams

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Søren Kierkegaard

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nothing in life is to be feared, only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. — Marie Curie

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