Our own personal sketch represents our understanding of the world.

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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

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Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ― George Orwell

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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.― George Orwell

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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

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You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point where we realize that no dialogue is possible, that no dialogue is necessary. When I say understanding or seeing, they mean something different to me. Understanding is a state of being where the question isn't there any more. There is nothing there that says, "Now I understand!" That's the basic difficulty between us. By understanding what I am saying, you are not going to get anywhere.

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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.' — Winston S. Churchill

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. — Virginia Woolf

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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

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