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  • Kahlil Gibran If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bryant H. McGill In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Barry Sanders In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Barry Commoner In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Alan Watts In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman In our society a man is known by the company he owns.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Carrie Fisher In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Bette Davis In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Hilaire Belloc Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Carson McCullers It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Dwight L. Moody It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Sir Richard Steele It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Albert Camus It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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