#understood

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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Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us. ↗

— George Grey

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Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood. ↗

— Terry Gross

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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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The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. ↗

— Alexander Haig

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I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

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For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

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How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

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A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

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