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• The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world

  Georges Simenon

  Communication, Two, People

  Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”

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• We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

  Leszek Kolakowski

  Order, Who We Are, Succeed

  Leszek Kolakowski (1997). “Modernity on Endless Trial”, p.158, University of Chicago Press

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• Early Apple machines - don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to keep debugging by isolating a problem, looking at memory in the limited debugging (weaker than the DOS DEBUG and no symbols) patch and retry and then re-program, download and try again. And again.

  Bob Frankston

  Memories, Apples, Trying

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• A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Style, Embrace, Universal

  Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.84, Yale University Press

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• We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.

  Richard J. Foster

  Heart, Desire, Sanctuary

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is.

  Stan Freberg

  Littles, Able, Now And Then

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• If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

  Ann Romney

  Looks, Want, Persons

  "Mitt Romney's attacks only help Newt Gingrich"by Ana Marie Cox, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.

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• I want to know
  if you know
  how to melt into that fierce heat of living
  falling toward
  the center of your longing.

  David Whyte

  Fall, Want, Heat

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.60, Penguin

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• The people who really rule the world are those who know how to pray.

  Derek Prince

  People, World, Praying

  Derek Prince (2009). “Secrets of a Prayer Warrior”, p.55, Chosen Books

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• I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

  Roland Joffe

  Stupid, Home, Serious Person

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• I like Pique a lot. He has class. He knows how to defend and also how to score. He is perfect in a duo with Carles Puyol.

  Paolo Maldini

  Class, Perfect, Duos

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• If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Pronunciation, Loud, Knows

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Children, Motivation

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• Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Reality, Horror, Knows

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.60, Gibbs Smith

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• I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I don’t know how it would affect global warming or penguins in Antarctica. But it might help me.

  Noah Cicero

  Would Be, Might, Penguins

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• The atonement was an intimate, personal experience in which Jesus came to know how to help each of us.

  Merrill J. Bateman

  Jesus, Helping, Atonement

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• The Saviors atonement in the garden and on the cross is intimate as well as infinite. Infinite in that it spans the eternities. Intimate in that the Savior felt each persons pains, sufferings, and sicknesses. Consequently, he knows how to carry our sorrows and relieve our burdens that we might be healed from within, made whole persons, and receive everlasting joy in his kingdom. May our faith in the Father and the Son help each of us to become whole.

  Merrill J. Bateman

  Pain, Father, Son

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• Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem

  Tom Holt

  Patience, Problem, Havens

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• Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Hero, Fighting, Cities

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.28, Penguin

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• It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who are irrational and can barely cope. If you want to know how stupid you’re perceived to be by the people up there, count the unsolicited junk mail you receive. If you get a lot, you’re perceived to be alluringly stupid.

  Jon Ronson

  Stupid, People, Junk

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• Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Book, Pages, Stewardship

  Holmes Rolston III (2012). “A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth”, p.131, Routledge

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• Microorganisms will give you anything you want if you know how to ask them.

  Kinichiro Sakaguchi

  Giving, Want, Microorganisms

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• People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters.

  John Seely Brown

  Mean, People, Needs

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• If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia meets its obligations. The figures are very simple, you do not need to be an expert. It is enough to know how to do a subtraction. China will grow very quickly, India also, and even Saudi Arabia projections of the 3 Mb/day will not be enough to meet the rise of Chinese demand.

  Fatih Birol

  Simple, Iraq, Chinese

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• Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.

  Mark Twight

  Exercise, Rights, Second Amendment

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