Quotes with know-nothings

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  • Alice Walker How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bob Filner However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Aaron Klug Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Carl Sagan Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 20 (p. 359)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Stokely Carmichael I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Susan B. Anthony I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Christopher Hampton I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
    Bryan Adams
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Larry Bird I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
    Larry Bird
    American basketbal player and coach (1956 - )
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  • Walt Disney I 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
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Clarence Darrow I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Richard Dawkins I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Igor Stravinsky I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Henry Ford I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Anna Sewell I am never afraid of what I know.
    Anna Sewell
    English novelist (1820 - 1878)
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  • Oscar Wilde I am not young enough to know everything.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Asa Gray I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Edward VIII I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.
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