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• In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.69, Ballantine Books

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• It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey continent of our ordinary days. There, sometimes, you meet your own heart like someone you've never known.

  Hans Børli

  Ocean, Heart, Islands

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• One who has self-esteem esteems oneself because one knows the value of one's being as a singular yet universal expression of the highest value in the Kosmos-the Universal Self, also known as God, Kami, or Brahma, or by many other names.

  Yasuhiko Kimura

  Self Esteem, Expression, Names

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• Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every child makes a dreadful nuisance of itself by asking 'Why?'. To stop this nuisance society has invented a marvellous system called education which, for the majority of people, brings to an end their desire to ask that question. The few failures of this system are known as scientists.

  Hermann Bondi

  Education, Children, Science

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• About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

  Charles Darwin

  Eye, Science, Thinking

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt (1993). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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• Displacement of any part of the skeletal frame may press against nerves, which are the channels of communication, intensifying or decreasing their carrying capacity, creating either too much or not enough functionating, an aberration known as disease. The nature of the affection depends upon the shape of the bone, the amount of pressure, age of patient, character of nerves impinged upon and the individual makeup.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Communication, Character, Makeup

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• New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, Writing, Media

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• ... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

  Adam Langer

  Wall, Writing, Best Work

  Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Answers, Novel

  Joan Didion (1984). “Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations”

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• There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.

  Smokey Robinson

  Sadness, Men, Tears

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• When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had your hair like a crew cut, cropped, with suits or Levis with red suspenders, sometimes Doc Martens. It was a thriving soul music, Motown and ska scene; we used to dance to Prince Buster and the Skatalites.

  Graham Parker

  Kids, Cutting, Boys

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• Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

  Alexander Wilson

  Thinking, Ideas, Fields

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• The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Tasks, Study, Language

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• The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Vision, Facts

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Clean

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• It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.

  Tibor Fischer

  Senior, Strong, Laughter

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• AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

  Larry Kramer

  Definitions, Modern, Aids

  "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, Doors, People

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• There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

  George Henry Borrow

  Country, Islands, World

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• In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Book, Character, Amusement

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• I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.

  Ricki Lake

  Baby, Dna, Want

  "Ricki Lake Delivers Maternal Health Awareness" by Eleanor Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

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• I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

  Rita Coolidge

  Song, People, Singers

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Journey, Imagination

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• From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

  Leon Jaworski

  Years, Law, Generations

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