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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. ↗

— William Penn

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To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

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I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me. ↗

— Debbie Reynolds

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I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. ↗

— Andre Rieu

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Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done. ↗

— Alain Robert

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As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

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