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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.
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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.
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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.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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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.
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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.
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I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
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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.
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I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly
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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Long Walk to Freedom (1995) -
I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.
A prayer for Owen Meany (1989) -
I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
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I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
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