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  • Carl Edward Sagan Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an island in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Carl Honore 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Brad Feld 'Sunspring,' the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it's worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Robert Frost A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Kurt Cobain A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Aldous Huxley A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Miles Davis A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
    Miles Davis
    American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926 - 1991)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Charles Lamb A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Bertrand Russell A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Angela Carter Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Bertrand Russell Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
    The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carole King All I needed to do was sing with conviction, speaking my truth from the heart, honestly and straightforwardly, and to offer my words, ideas and music to the audience as if it were one collective friend that I'd known for a very long time.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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