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The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears.
— Rabindranath Tagore
I am responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.
— Anonymous
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
— Matt Groening
What matters is not what is said, but what is understood from it.
— Anonymous
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
— Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi
Advise friends in secret; praise them openly.
— Publilius Syrus
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
— Albert Einstein