#understood

My music is best understood by children and animals. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. ↗

— Barber Conable

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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me! ↗

— Miles Davis

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed. ↗

— Adam Levin

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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive. ↗

— Ed Belfour

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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

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I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile. ↗

— Earl Butz

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Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed. ↗

— Frank Capra

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