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  • Henry David Thoreau I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Ivern Ball Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
    Ivern Ball
    American author (1926 - 1992)
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  • Barbara McClintock When you know you're right, you don't care what others think. You know sooner or later it will come out in the wash.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • John Abbott ''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
    John Abbott
    Canadian lawyer and politician (1821 - 1893)
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  • Jake Johanson A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too."
    Jake Johanson
     
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  • Burning Spear A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • William Dean Howells A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • Brigitte Nielsen All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Anatole France An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Samuel Butler Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bill Hybels Be wary of insisting that you know better than God about when a prayer request should be granted. God's delays are not necessarily denials. He always has reasons for his 'not yets.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Charles Kingsley Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Emily Dickinson Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Carol Burnett Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Few people know how to be old.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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