Quotes with knows

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  • Publilius Syrus The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • George Orwell The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Elaine Dundy The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
    The Dud Avocado (1958) I, 8
    Elaine Dundy
    American writer, actress and journalist (1921 - 2008)
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  • Albert Camus The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Oscar Wilde The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aristotle Onassis The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
    Aristotle Onassis
    Greek shipping magnate (1906 - 1975)
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  • Aristotle Onassis The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
    Aristotle Onassis
    Greek shipping magnate (1906 - 1975)
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  • Aristotle Onassis The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.
    Aristotle Onassis
    Greek shipping magnate (1906 - 1975)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Adam Osborne The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Carl Honore The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • William Hazlitt The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Arthur Herzog The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Bill Clinton The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.
    at Rosa Parks funeral, CNN.com, 11-02-05
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • David Starr Jordan The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
    David Starr Jordan
    American educator, eugenicist, and peace activist (1851 - 1931)
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  • William Golding The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • James Baldwin There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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