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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history. ↗

— Nancy Sinatra

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Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was 'Salome's Dances' by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, 78 record, and I stood up on an ottoman to play it on a big Victrola and I'd just keep playing it and playing it. ↗

— Mike Stoller

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Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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They understood why I left ER. It wasn't just about a guy. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept. ↗

— Randall Terry

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Women are made to be loved, not understood. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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