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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Bill Bailey Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as a snorkel.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Richard Bach Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • William Shakespeare O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Abraham Pais Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • J. B. Priestley One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Paine Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Brit Morin Our generation grew up with technology. It evolved as we grew up. This new generation has had it since they were babies. That's crazy. It fundamentally changes they way they understand and think about technology. They've never known life without it, whereas we knew life without the Internet.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bridget Moynahan Our structure has always been two homes, and that's all my son has ever known. So you balance it. Make sure you have good support with your family and friends and nannies.
    Bridget Moynahan
    American actress and model (1971 - )
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  • Anna Freud Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Ben Hecht People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bill Bryson Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Allen Ginsberg Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • David Mamet Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Charlotte Brontë Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • John Dryden Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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