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Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. ↗

— George Savile

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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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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Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him. ↗

— Mark Shields

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It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood. ↗

— Hu Shih

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Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world. ↗

— Nina Simone

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One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray. ↗

— Tom Skerritt

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A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. ↗

— Frank Stella

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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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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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