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- I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it… — Hillary Clinton
- Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort. — Robert D. Putnam
- To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made.… — Elaine Scarry
- The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money,… — Patrick Macnee
- One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know,… — Eric Holder
- I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare. — Louise Jameson
- To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate. — Dick Cavett
- These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,… — Bill McKibben
- I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it. — Robert Henri
- Understate and over-prove. — Frank Bettger