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• Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

  Mark Antony

  Ambition, Loss, Dogs Of War

  "Fictional character: Mark Anthony". "Mark Anthony’s Speech at Funeral in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare", www.cbsenext.com. October 17, 2013.

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• At some time, often when we least expect it, we all have to face overwhelming challenges. When the unthinkable happens, the lighthouse is hope. Once we find it, we must cling to it with absolute determination. When we have hope, we discover powers within ourselves we may have never known- the power to make sacrifices, to endure, to heal, and to love. Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

  Christopher Reeve

  Determination, Sacrifice, Challenges

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• If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.

  Loren Cunningham

  Christian, Fear, Heaven

  Loren Cunningham (1997). “Making Jesus Lord: The Dynamic Power of Laying Down Your Rights”, p.70, YWAM Publishing

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• The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Mind, Painful

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.227, New World Library

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• Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Long, World, Wonder

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.23, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.

  M. John Harrison

  Country, Cities, Forever

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• Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

  William Harvey

  Knowledge, Knowing, Physicians

  "Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology".

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• Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

  Ransom Riggs

  Life, Stars, Echoes

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• To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Criticism, Steps

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

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• It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Space, People, Old Friends

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.44, Prestwick House Inc

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• If sheep do not have the constant care of a shepherd, they will go the wrong way, unaware of the dangers at hand. They have been known to nibble themselves right off the side of a mountain..... And so, because sheep are sheep, they need shepherds to care for them. The welfare of sheep depends solely upon the care they get from their shepherd. Therefore, the better the shepherd, the healthier the sheep.

  Kay Arthur

  Sheep, Hands, Mountain

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• Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Grace, Want, Honest

  Twitter post from Jan 17, 2015

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• Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven't anything to do with glamour.

  Clark Gable

  Hair, Age, Weight

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As you open yourself to living at your edge, your deepest purpose will slowly begin to make itself known. In the meantime, you will experience layer after layer of purposes, each one getting closer and closer to the fullness of your deepest purpose. It is as if your deepest purpose is at the center of your being, and it is surrounded by layers of concentric circles, each circle being a lesser purpose. Your life consists of penetrating each circle, from the outside toward the center.

  David Deida

  Circles, Purpose, Layers

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If it had blown up, I wouldn’t have known a thing about it.

  Oil Can Boyd

  Ifs

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• For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

  John Calvin

  Art, Astronomy, Admirable

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Errors, Ascent, Judgment

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Disappointment, Wind, Encounters

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.49, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

  Andy Warhol

  Fascination, Kind, Certain

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Successful, Technology, Years

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• ..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because it is in most circumstances the most efficient method known but even more because it is the only method by which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Individual Effort, Competition, Arbitrary

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• The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

  A. Whitney Brown

  Thinking, Long, Water

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

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