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When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

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My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

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Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

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I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy. ↗

— Christina Hendricks

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And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited. ↗

— Betty Hill

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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other. ↗

— Francois Hollande

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! ↗

— Johnny Ball

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