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• The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.

  Herb Caen

  Fall, Humility, Men

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• The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

  George Matthew Adams

  Games, Play, World

  George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

  Heraclitus

  Wisdom, Judgment, All Things

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• None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

  Thomas Cole

  Men, Hands, Wilderness

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• The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Success, Men, Errors

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• Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

  George Sanders

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Kings, Feelings, Deception

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• I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

  A. A. Gill

  Children, Long, Television

  A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

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• Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

  Donald Curtis

  Faith, Air, Doe

  DONALD CURTIS (1963). “DAILY POWER for JOYFUL LIVING”

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• Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Iron, Steel, Today

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• Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Wells, Draws, Knows

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• I just don't know how to date.

  Jennie Garth

  Knows

  "Jennie Garth Divorce: Actress Talks Dating Post-Split on ‘The Jeff Probst Show’", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

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• To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

  Laozi

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Intelligent

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• My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . . . So I didn't have the problem some people do who say, "I don't know how to pray." I used the songs to communicate with God. . . . To me, songs were the telephone to heaven, and I tied up the line quite a bit.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Prayer, Boys

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• This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct, or [to] seed our cosmos with life. The situation is so unstable that I doubt we can dwell at this fork in the road for more than another hundred years. But if we end up going the life route instead of the death route, then in a distant future our cosmos will be teaming with life, all of which can be traced back to what we do-here and now. I don't know how we'll be thought of, but I'm sure that we won't be remembered as insignificant.

  Max Tegmark

  Moon, Technology, Self

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• Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Moving, Wind Blowing

  Song: Idiot Wind, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

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• A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Writing, Past

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.73, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'd like to know how to catch a girl. I've caught frogs, I've caught snakes, earthworms.

  Sam the Sham

  Girl, Animal, Snakes

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• I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

  Ellen Barkin

  Crazy, Cancer, Gay

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• I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

  Ellen Barkin

  Teacher, Acting, Levels

  "Actress-producer Ellen Barkin". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2011.

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• The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

  Will Cuppy

  Looks, Trouble, Dictionary

  Will Cuppy (1951). “How to Get from January to December”

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• He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

  Marie de France

  Tunes, Tales, Knows

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.97, Xist Publishing

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• I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

  Millard Drexler

  Running, Numbers, Intuition

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• Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Men, Copying, Generations

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• I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  France, Week, Impression

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