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Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.

It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.

`` I understand [ Hearst ] is a candidate for Presidential honors '', Devery said without cracking a smile.

It wasn't hard to understand.

This is certainly an irrational dogmatism, in which the modern mind attempts to understand the spirit of the sixteenth century on twentieth-century terms.

`` The Germans in the fourth century were a very simple race, who comprehended little of natural laws, and who therefore referred phenomena they did not understand to supernatural intervention.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

`` He was not much older than myself, '' writes the narrator, `` when he began to feel the impact of that human mystery which now obsesses me, and which makes me begin, perhaps, to understand him ''.

`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.

These new poems have only a few direct references to jazz and jazz musicians, but they show changes in Patchen's approach to his poetry, for he has tried to enter into and understand the emotional attitude of the jazz musician.

I understand very well about Lauro Di Bosis and how his action is symbolic.

Tardily the Government here came to understand how this country's own reputation was tarnished by the association with repression.

IBM has a machine that can understand spoken words and talk back.

Among the most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet so few persons, other than scholars, really understand the true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.

Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

The public should understand that whether they support a state hospital or a VA hospital, the tax dollar has to be paid one way or the other.

This we can sympathetically understand.

As we understand, this directive was given to all city and county employes.

If Nikita buys a small plot in some modest rural cemetery, everyone will understand.

He affected ( most properly ) not to understand my point.

For him to ignore the political consequences involved in an Atlantic Union of this kind is difficult to understand.

He did mention in his column the fact that he had received many letters about this and he himself did not understand the networks and the independent local stations' not doing this -- but nothing happened.

Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.

He said to the Secretary, `` I understand you came from a little Pennsylvania town near Wilkes-Barre.

At the same time, you have to face facts and realize that a man who's been in the Marine Corps all his life doesn't understand much about politics.