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It can only be understood in the context of story, and everything, all of this is story.

It wasn't until later, when I was imprisoned again, that I understood the real meaning of torture, and how easy your humanity can be taken from you, for the time I was engaged in war, righteous, righteous war.

So, while I always understood the value of cooling during my summer vacations, I actually wound up working on this problem because of an intellectual puzzle that I came across about six years ago.

And it's always been understood by climate scientists and meteorologists as a very important natural phenomenon.

But I was moved almost to tears because I understood what was happening to this young man.

And I really understood what patient capital meant emotionally in the last month or so.

She, like so many of the women I see at A to Z, worked hard every day, understood what suffering was, had a deep faith in God, loved her children and would never have accepted a handout.

It's the least understood of all the four fundamental forces, and the weakest, and nobody really knows what it is or why it's there.

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's almost impossible to be absolutely certain that what you're going to deliver fits.

Later, I understood why my father got so upset.

And what I really think that we're doing is, we're moving towards a collaborative society, a society in which the talents of both men and women are becoming understood and valued and employed.

The moment I really understood that something was happening, a friend of mine told me, "Google the word 'Israel.'"

These sympathetic smiles spread all throughout the room now, and I realize that all of my other students are in the same boat, that maybe they took notes or memorized definitions from the textbook, but not one of them really understood the main ideas.

So this means that the system as a whole suddenly starts to show a behavior which cannot be understood or predicted by looking at the components of the system.

Those who came back to life were those who understood the erotic as an antidote to death.

And they know how to bring it back because they have demystified one big myth, which is the myth of spontaneity, which is that it's just going to fall from heaven while you're folding the laundry like a deus ex machina, and in fact they understood that whatever is going to just happen in a long-term relationship, already has.

You understood exactly what I just said in English.

It was kind of a nasty way to get maturation, but we got it, because we all understood it, and for the first time that I could remember, there were mass protests against this corruption.

I came back after two months and the children trooped in and said, "We've understood nothing."

So a little girl who you see just now, she raised her hand, and she says to me in broken Tamil and English, she said, "Well, apart from the fact that improper replication of the DNA molecule causes disease, we haven't understood anything else." (Laughter) (Applause) So I tested them.

Clearly, we have never understood what is causing desertification, which has destroyed many civilizations and now threatens us globally.

We have never understood it.

But we have just simply not understood why was it beginning to happen 10,000 years ago?

There was a time when we understood how things worked and how they were made, so we could build and repair them, or at the very least make informed decisions about what to buy.

Two scientists at University of Illinois understood this when they published a paper on a simpler method for making conductive ink.

But if you understood how important meaning is, then you would figure out that it's actually important to spend some time, energy and effort in getting people to care more about what they're doing.

Still, Abed was far from my mind, when last year, I returned to Israel to write of the crash, and the book I then wrote, "Half-Life," was nearly complete when I recognized that I still wanted to meet Abed, and finally I understood why: to hear this man say two words: "I'm sorry."

And it was then I understood that no matter how stark the reality, the human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

It was then I understood that Abed would never apologize.

He said you ought to just throw in a few simple things, like seeking first to understand, as opposed to being understood.

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