Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself."
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Underestimate
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Leon Brown
Artist
"Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Never underestimate your own ignorance."
Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction Author
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
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"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that."
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"Don't underestimate yourself. You are capable of more than you can ever imagine."
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"Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity."
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"People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner."
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"Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on."
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"No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist."
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"...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre."
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"Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases."
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"Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing."
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"People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity."
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"It is sufficient to estimate the enemy situation correctly and to concentrate your strength to capture him. There is no more to it than this. He who lacks foresight and underestimates his enemy will surely be captured by him."
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"There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned."
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"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
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"I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment."
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"You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years."
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"Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!"
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"Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people."
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"Never underestimate those who you scar."
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"Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable."
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"Never underestimate the desire to bolt."
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