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" A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. "

" As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East. "

" If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. "

" I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about. "

" In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does. "

" In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding. "

" In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. "

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

" Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? "

" I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants. "

" It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment. "

Samuel Alexander

" Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. "

" Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia. "

" Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. "

" Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. "

" My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me. "

" My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding. "

" Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself. "

Johann Georg Hamann

" People like to say that my work is about making the invisible visible, but that's a misunderstanding. It's about showing what invisibility looks like. "

" The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. "

" The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there's no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the secrets of the kingdom, and that conversely, the other disciples were misunderstanding what he meant by the gospel. "

" The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band. "

" The notion that the U.S. can impose its will unilaterally on the World Bank reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about how multilateral organizations should work. "

" The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests. "

" There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.' "

" There's an ocean of misunderstanding. It's called the civilian-military divide. I had a lot to learn about our military - who they are, what burdens they carry. "

" There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked. "

Pamela Anderson

" The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" The world only goes round by misunderstanding. "

Charles Baudelaire

" 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. "

Anatole Broyard

" To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. "

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