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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star