Quotes with know-nothings

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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All we have of freedom - all we use or know - this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Laurence Sterne All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Franklin P. Jones All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
    Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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  • Caroline Leavitt All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Earl Nightingale All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Benigno Aquino III Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Thomas Szasz Although we may not know it, we have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.
    Toward the Therapeutic State
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Bonnie Tyler Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Billy Graham America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ben Stein Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Bill Gross Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Sydney Smith Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bette Davis An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • George Bernard Shaw An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Faulkner An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Carl Sagan An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
    (2006)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Laurence J. Peter An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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