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  • Louis Pasteur The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
    Louis Pasteur
    French scientist (1822 - 1895)
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  • Samuel Johnson The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Oscar Wilde The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Aldous Huxley There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Jim Morrison There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • Bob Ross There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Brad Feld There are two great fictional TV series about technology and the computer industry that each have now had three seasons. The one everyone knows about is 'Silicon Valley.' The lesser-known one is 'Halt and Catch Fire.'
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Sinclair Lewis There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Blaise Pascal There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carl Sagan There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human being to make.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
    New York Evening Mail (16 November 1917)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • George Eliot There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Lennon There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Bernard Mandeville This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
    The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 69
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Virginia Woolf Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Alan Bennett 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.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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