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  • Alban Berg I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
    Alban Berg
    Austrian composer (1885 - 1935)
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  • Buck Owens I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all.
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    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • A. E. van Vogt I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Brooke Shields I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Plato I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Charles Dickens I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Wilson Mizner I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Hermann Hesse I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • François Rabelais I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
    François Rabelais
    French writer (1483 - 1553)
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  • William Butler Yeats I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Heywood Broun I have known people to stop and buy an apple on the corner and then walk away as if they had solved the unemployment problem.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Noam Chomsky I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Douglas Macarthur I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Edith Wharton I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Josh Billings I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Ezra Pound I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Adam Smith I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Anna Held I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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