Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
I've always felt like I belonged, and you need affirmation every now and then.
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