My words itch at your ears till you understand them. -- Walt Whitman

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Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious ― Sun Tzu

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Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot. - Adam Sandler

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Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick. ― Amanda Gorman

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But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

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Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that? ― Sidney Sheldon

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The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society. - John Lewis

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I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really. ― Jennifer Starzec, Determination

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Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made. - John Lewis

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The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

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