No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
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But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.
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I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
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It ain't just a question of misunderstood, Deep down inside him, he's no good
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
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These are cases courts like the least; they stir raw emotions. Whatever they decide will be misunderstood; I don't think any side will be happy with the result. Even the winning side loses because of the deep divisions that will result.
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It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said
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In my 30 years in the industry, this is the principle that has been the most consistently misunderstood or ignored.
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.
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The three-judge panel... Missed or misunderstood numerous key aspects of this case
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Even common greens, like spinach, are misunderstood. As a group, they are overlooked, but they add so much flavor.
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Every other carrier that competed with them picked up the pace. They profoundly misunderstood the competitive response. They were doomed from day one.
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... That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight... That's what I have to go into before all my work is misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon...
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Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
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This triangular relationship involving Berlin, Paris and Moscow was a dangerous development. It was very dangerous for the small countries in Europe because they perceived it as an axis and you can understand why. We want good relations with Russia but we do not want those relations to be misunderstood.
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