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“Nothing sends the message to your enemy that he has not fully understood the situation on the battlefield--a tactician's greatest sin--like zombies unexpectedly tapping their rear guard on the shoulder and eating their brains.”

Sin Brain Situation Enemy Eating Messages Understood Shoulders Zombie Battlefields Tapping

Author:Scott Kenemore

“Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.”

Mean Character Facts Language Music Messages Music Is Understood Creator Contradictory

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.”

Would Be Political Military Messages Understood Warning Eyebrows Ambiguity

Author:Alexander Haig

“What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.”

Ifs Knows Important Ideas Lasts Science Messages Understood Mathematics Sentences Experiments Checks No Idea Guarantees Lectures

Author:Nathan Seiberg

“We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus' hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking. The destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 67-70 seems to many people to fulfill much of what we have traditionally understood as hell.”

“When some people rejoin with “All Lives Matter” they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue. It is true that all lives matter, but it is equally true that not all lives are understood to matter which is precisely why it is most important to name the lives that have not mattered, and are struggling to matter in the way they deserve.”

People Way Important Matter Problem Names Struggle Messages Understood Deserve Untrue

Author:Judith Butler

“The message I understood was this: Just don't get caught!”

Messages Understood Caught

Author:Patrik Sinkewitz

“...for me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood .... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God”

Way Long I Can Play Prayer Creation Offers Messages Understood Thank God Impressed New Music

Author:Albert Ayler

“You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.”

Want Messages Understood Loud Sophisticated

Author:Miuccia Prada

“Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past. Of time to come, she says much, but who listens?”

Littles Earth Past Language Secret Records Happened Broken Messages Understood Ancient Code Mud Lava

Book:Weight

Source: Weight

“Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)”

Needs Violence Messages Understood Acts Of Violence

Author:Jean Vanier

“I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: 'Where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning?”

Needs Should Believe Real Asks I Believe Understanding Greater Violence Messages Understood Acts Of Violence

Author:Jean Vanier

“Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.”

Knows Wells Book Might Hate Sea Land Reader Safe Messages Understood Notes Bottles Publishing Misinterpreted Hurling

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.”

Said Important Enemy One Thing Messages Understood Adults Army Deception Manipulation Officers Gravity Ender

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue following their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist. “Because that’s what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don’t like to suffer." From then on, the boy understood his heart. He asked it, please, never to stop speaking to him. He asked that, when he wandered far from his dreams, his heart press him and sound the alarm. The boy swore that, every time he heard the alarm, he would heed its message.”

People Heart Dream Suffering Sound Boys Heard Please Messages Understood Presses Following Alarms Heed Alchemist

Author:Paulo Coelho