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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.
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The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.
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There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
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There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.
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They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
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They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
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This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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