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• PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Race, Wife, Cain

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2484, Delphi Classics

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• I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Emotional, Years, Bipolar

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• Your Saying "God is Most Great" does not mean that He is greater than something else, since there is nothing else alongside of Him, so that it could be said that He is greater than it. Rather, the meaning of Allahu Akbar is that He is much too great to be perceived by the senses or for the depths of His Majesty to be reached by reason and logic, and indeed, that He is much too great to be known by an other-than-Him for truly, no one knows God but God.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Mean, Depth, Doe

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• The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations, a plausible and self-consistent picture of a process which must have occurred before any of the forms which are known to us in the fossil record could have existed.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Thinking, Origin Of Life, Self

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Animal, Research, Disease

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• In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9 percent reliability, we could expect 5,600 defects. Hence the striving for perfection and the use of redundancy which characterize the Apollo program.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Moon, Journey, Circles

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• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  Ralph Abernathy

  Fighting, Jail, Parks

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• The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'.

  Balthus

  Looks, Way, Painting

  "Balthus: a retrospective exhibition".

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• The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.

  Francis Chan

  Moving, Words You Speak, Loan

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• A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.

  Robert Cialdini

  Successful, People, Principles

  Robert B. Cialdini (1988). “Influence: science and practice”, Pearson Scott Foresman

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• I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it.

  James Branch Cabell

  Loneliness, Men, Differences

  James Branch Cabell (2008). “Between Dawn and Sunrise”, p.72, Wildside Press LLC

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• I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Ocean, Heart, Years

  Leni Riefenstahl (1992). “The sieve of time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl”

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• And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] To electrise plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the Tube or Sphere, that are rubb'd, do, in the Instant of Friction, attract the Electrical Fire, and therefore take it from the Thin rubbing; the same parts immediately, as the Friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received, to any Body that has less.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Science, Thinking, Fire

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• Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Environment, Prosperity

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

  Terry Gilliam

  Well Known, Wells, Animator

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. November 15, 2000.

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• I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist.

  James Lee Burke

  Believe, Home, Ignorance

  James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.

  Otis Chandler

  California, Southern, World

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• God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.

  David Platt

  Greatness, Might, Way

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• When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!

  Annie Lennox

  Wish, World, Ends

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• I want to be known as a great businessman.

  Edward Lampert

  Want, Great Business, Businessman

  "Eddie Lampert: The best investor of his generation" by Patricia Sellers, money.cnn.com. February 6, 2006.

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• It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.

  Duffy

  Names, People, Decision

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• But I just want to be known for my football.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Football, Want

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• Feelings you have for each other will not be known unless you voice them.

  Kaoru

  Voice, Feelings

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• A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.

  Anuj

  Firsts, Opinion, Well Known

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• The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

  Clark Kerr

  United States, World, Higher Education

  Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade, Maureen Kawaoka (1994). “Troubled Times for American Higher Education: The 1990s and Beyond”, p.182, SUNY Press

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