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• We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Answers, Opinion

  Conversation with George Sewall Boutwell concerning the nomination of Salmon P. Chase to the U.S. Supreme Court, reported by Boutwell in his "Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs", vol. 2, (p. 29), 1902.

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• This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

  Samuel Johnson

  Done, World, Littles

  'Prayers and Meditations' (1785) no. 170 'Against inquisitive and perplexing Thoughts' 12 August 1784

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• Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.

  Johnny Carson

  Marriage, Girl, Used

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• There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

  Robert Jarvik

  Physicians, Matter, Clear

  "Jarvik Responds to Lipitor Ad Controversy" by Ryan Owens, Joel Parks, Steve Petyeraki, Maeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2008.

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• Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

  Blaise Pascal

  Apology, Praying, Excuse

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• I just want to be known as funny.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Want

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• Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

  John Steinbeck

  Important, Obsession, Hunger

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.79, Penguin UK

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• The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

  James Boswell

  Whimsical, Pleasure, Whim

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Past, Masters, Saddened

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.41, 谷月社

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• To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

  Roland Barthes

  Passion, Hiding Something, Essence

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• Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

  William Safire

  Fighting, Light, Years

  "Newswords" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. July 09, 2009.

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• Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

  Ruth Benedict

  Civilization, Historical, Groups

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

  Abraham Cowley

  Age, Reputation, My Own

  Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.27

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• Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Book, Ideas

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

  Tiger Woods

  Wanted

  "From the Vault: Hello world, meet Tiger Woods" by Greg Williams, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2006.

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• We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Balance, Universe

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• We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Pain, Loss, Frustration

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  Florence King

  Mind, Literature, World

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• It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

  Huston Smith

  Civilization, Different, Looks

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• There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in known chemistry for the belief that long sequences of reactions can organize spontaneously -- and every reason to believe that they cannot. The problem of achieving sufficient specificity, whether in aqueous solution or on the surface of a mineral, is so severe that the chance of closing a cycle of reactions as complex as the reverse citric acid cycle, for example, is negligible.

  Leslie Orgel

  Believe, Origin Of Life, Agreement

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• Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

  Louis Sullivan

  Men, Sound, Fabric

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• 'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

  Jonathan Raban

  Dream, Father, Real

  "He tried his best to veil it, but Obama is an intellectual" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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• It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

  Northrop Frye

  Block, Emotional, Thinking

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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• Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Power, Force

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (1912). “Armaments and Arbitration, Or, The Place of Force in the International Relations of States”, p.105, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Spring, Men

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1927). “The Hindú View of Life: Upton Lectures Delivered at Manchester College, Oxford, 1926”

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