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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
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Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.
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Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
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Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
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Fear is incomplete knowledge.
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Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
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Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
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Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111 -
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government[2]
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