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  • Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

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  • Epictetus Do not write so that you can be understood, write so that you cannot be misunderstood.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Gloria Steinem Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • François Truffaut All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
    François Truffaut
    French filmmaker (1932 - 1984)
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  • Napoleon An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Alan Greenspan I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Audre Lorde 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.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bill Forsyth It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
    Senaats committee in 1987
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Antonin Artaud 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.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To be great is to be misunderstood.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anatole Broyard 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
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Daniel S. Loeb We look for companies that are misunderstood by the market and mispriced.
    Daniel S. Loeb
    American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist (1961 - )
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  • William James 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.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Richard Nixon No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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