Quotes with lesser-known

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  • B. B. King My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Agnes Martin My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Jean Cocteau Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Corrie Ten Boom Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
    Corrie Ten Boom
    Dutch-American resistance fighter and autobiographical writer (1892 - 1983)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • C. M. Ward No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.
    C. M. Ward
     
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  • Angela Davis No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Agnes de Mille No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Hitopadesa No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Bill Bailey Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as a snorkel.
    Source: Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Richard Bach Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • William Shakespeare O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Abraham Pais Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • J. B. Priestley One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Paine Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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