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I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

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In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that. ↗

— Helmut Lang

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I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

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You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. ↗

— Henry Lawson

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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. ↗

— James Madison

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I'm not driven by being understood. ↗

— Kary Mullis

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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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