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By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

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Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

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You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

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Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?' ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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