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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.

They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go t...

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That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by c...

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Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn,...

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Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to le...

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Werner HeisenbergPhysics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void i...

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I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of ...

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Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endl...

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the cont...

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There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends...

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You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits,...

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I'm comfortable with the unknown -- that's the point of science. There are places out there, billion...

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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be ...

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Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. ...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and bein...

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Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that ...

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The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because ...

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The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because ...

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The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because ...

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The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because ...

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The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the ast...

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The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, co...

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Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the...

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By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the e...

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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexpl...

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What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Sci...

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fe...

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So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the ...

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And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not...

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It is the mystery of the unknownThat fascinates us; we are children stillWayward and wistful; with o...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

…the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.

In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

One is never afraid of the unknown one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from ...

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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing ...

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to ...

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People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightenin...

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If there is no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn'...

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Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the...

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For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to ven...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal ...

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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the n...

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Failure is a word unknown to me.

Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is ex...

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What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we...

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The people through which the Tradition of the Sun spoke were people just like anyone else, and who, ...

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Then the one called Raltariki is really a demon?" asked Tak."Yes—and no," said Yama, "If by 'demon' ...

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I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the s...

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You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child w...

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I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band...

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