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• If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Mean, Atoms, Nuclear

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.61, Princeton University Press

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• Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Character, Fiction, Unusual

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14&21, 2010.

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• I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

  Paula Fox

  People, Lovely, Kind

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• As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

  Luis Figo

  Football, Fighting, Player

  "The first galactico" by John Carlin, January 18, 2004.

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• I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Want, Knows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.

  Faith Evans

  Thinking, People, Darkness

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• People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

  Larry Elder

  People, Effort, Acquire

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• It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Names, America, Odd

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• My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.

  Elliott Carter

  War, Important, World

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• Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in them which is not perceived. But if they are looked on as notes or Images, referred to Things or Archetypes existing without the Mind, then are we involved all in Scepticism.

  George Berkeley

  Science, Mind, Notes

  George Berkeley (2009). “Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues”, p.62, Oxford University Press

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• Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

  Darrell Issa

  Greatness, Class, Creating

  "Interview with Representative Darrell Issa". "The Situation Room" with Jim Acosta, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 28, 2012.

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• I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Jobs, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Thinking, Hollywood, Actors

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• Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

  Bob Kane

  Littles, Interviews, Given

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• You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

  Fred Frith

  Years, Musician, Firsts

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• One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Kings, Would Be, Thrones

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• For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

  Virgil Goode

  Two, Liberty, Lines

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• I have known some wonderful men.

  Gloria Allred

  Men, Wonderful, Wonderful Man

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• I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

  Chanel Iman

  Personality, Black, Want

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• Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Well Known, Wells, Menstruation

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.428, Read Books Ltd

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• It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

  Carl Karcher

  Strong, Views, Political

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• I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

  Bob Kane

  Facts

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• Oh well, when I was younger I was known for breaking hearts. I am the kind of person that falls passionately in love but then a couple of months down the line, I fall out of love.

  Jenna Jameson

  Falling In Love, Couple, Heart

  "Interview: Jenna Jameson gallery". www.askmen.com.

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• There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.

  Mary Cheney

  Gay, People, United States

  Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books

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• The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Looks, Today, Modern

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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