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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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Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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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

#commend #him #man #men #only

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

#life #sweet #understood #utilized

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#carrier #expression #help #idea #inherent

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about. ↗

— Brad Holland

#artists #cliches #culture #cultures #eager

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#creator #derogatory #humour #i #never

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence. ↗

— William Ames

#efficiency #either #god #may #providence

Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

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