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I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift ...

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When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which i...

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Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know w...

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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future,...

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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever ...

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I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spil...

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It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they a...

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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until ...

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But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that...

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At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of peopl...

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So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn,If you don't set your mind on honest aims and...

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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his...

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Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I ...

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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent...

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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was g...

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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about ...

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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following que...

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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors wh...

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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe s...

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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but ...

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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do mor...

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How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I...

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I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it?

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all kno...

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be ...

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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most...

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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep lookin...

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I know nothing about technology.

I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to hav...

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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ...

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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive ...

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If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel ...

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In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or...

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Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentie...

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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I kno...

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I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make m...

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My mom always taught me - you know, little boys listen to their moms too much - that whatever you pu...

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I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's auth...

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I never wanted to just glamorize the playa lifestyle and not touch on the down side. I wanted everyo...

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There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning ha...

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I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art...

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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know...

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If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the wor...

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You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess ...

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You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to sm...

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Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform...

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I don't think I am particularly funny. In fact, I know I'm not.

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know...

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Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know ...

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You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blo...

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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care abo...

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I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Wit...

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Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are...

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I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you m...

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I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's in...

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But, you know, you can't be a star at home.

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very ...

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This is the strangest life I have ever known.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

We cannot know the mystery of the future.

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Jimmy CarterJust Peace: A Message of Hope

I don't know... I don't think you can trust any of Kurt's characters. That's how Mr. Sutter operates...

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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into...

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, y...

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It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know...

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My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most as...

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I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead...

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of t...

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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking da...

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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that ...

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John Gardner (British writer)The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.