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• What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Animal, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.484, Delphi Classics

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• The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.

  Aldrich Ames

  Names, Two, Kgb

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• At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know what we do not know in an immeasurably richer way than we did. And learning this has been a remarkable achievement-among the greatest and least-known of the modern era.

  David Berlinski

  Science, Achievement, Way

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.

  A. S. W. Rosenbach

  Lying, Book, Journey

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• I have been known on occasion to howl at the moon.

  Crash Davis

  Moon, Durham, Howl

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• As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known. It has been revealed through Wikileaks and other journalists around the world that Stratfor maintained a worldwide network of informants that they used to engage in intrusive and possibly illegal surveillance activities on behalf of large multinational corporations.

  Jeremy Hammond

  Wikileaks, World, Surveillance

  "Jeremy Hammond Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2013.

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• We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

  Eglantyne Jebb

  Mean, Imagination, World

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• But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.

  Katharine Weber

  Eye, Mean, People

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.16, Crown

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• What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.

  Andy Couturier

  Art, Thinking, Age

  Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.278, Stone Bridge Press

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• Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

  Francis Maude

  Party, Great Day, Rehabilitation

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• When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

  Paul Henderson

  Easter, West, Fairy Tale

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  A. E. Waite

  Sight, Acting, Firsts

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed.

  Alexis Carrel

  Believe, Dark, Training

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• Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human.

  Dick Gregory

  Dark, Pet, Suffering

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• Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not have a kind thought for this wretch. Rather they will be satisfied to see him in the flames as a victim of God's justice. ("The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge . . ." Psalm 57:11) They will abhor him. A mother will look from paradise upon her own condemned son without being moved, as though she had never known him.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Mother, Revenge, Son

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• The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.

  Joe Lieberman

  Dream, Iraq, People

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• We begin to make the plan known to our children when we hold tight to the iron rod ourselves.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Children, Iron, Plans

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• Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

  John Longenecker

  America, Independence, Liberty

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• True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ideas, Justice, Littles

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Liberty and the News”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

  Guy Clark

  Player, Guitar, Years

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• The pack of media brayed and bellowed outside the house for seven weeks. Sol realized then what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called "public's right to know".

  Dan Simmons

  Media, House, Community

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.352, Spectra

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• The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can be built around the machine but it is doubtful that a meaningful life can be produced by it.... When man worships at the feet of avalas creations. When he feels the wind blowing through him on a high peak or sleeps under a closely matted white bark pine in an exposed basin, he is apt to find his relationship to the universe.

  William O. Douglas

  Meaningful, Sleep, Journey

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• Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Journey, Men, Hiking

  Joseph Wood Krutch (2010). “The Desert Year”, p.126, University of Iowa Press

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• There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.

  Robert Torricelli

  Stuff, Evidence, Testimony

  " Torricelli sees vindication in ethics case" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2002.

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• Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

  Federica Montseny

  Honesty, Spring, Heart

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