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• Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time.

  Mindy McCready

  Long, Roger, Long Time

  "Mindy McCready Admits to Relationship with Roger Clemens" by Eileen Finan, people.com. April 29, 2008.

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• Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

  Martin Van Creveld

  War, People, Majority

  Martin Van Creveld (2009). “Transformation of War”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was known as the crazy little kid. I did impressions. Then I realized that's not what I want to do. I don't want to be a comedian to please other people.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Crazy, Kids, Ghetto

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• By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self, Order, Narrators

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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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• 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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• I have known some wonderful men.

  Gloria Allred

  Men, Wonderful, Wonderful Man

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• I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.

  Nick Offerman

  Actors, Well Known, Dependable

  "'Parks and Recreation's' Nick Offerman on Mustaches and Being Tackled by Robin Givens (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 15, 2011.

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• If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Children, Fire, Boss

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• That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration

  Joseph Warren

  Wise, Mean, Patriotic

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• The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Knowing, Unity

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• Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. Indeed, mathematics itself may be built on small islands of truth comprising the pieces of mathematics that can be validated by relatively short proofs. All else is speculation.

  Ivars Peterson

  Islands, Ontology, May

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• Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  God, Thinking, Cities

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• Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Hilaire Belloc (1922). “The Jews”

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• Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover, he has persistently shown himself ungrateful... The Jews have always formed a rebellious element in every state.

  Nesta Helen Webster

  Men, Race, Ungrateful

  Nesta Helen Webster (1921). “World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization”

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• The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.

  John Ortberg

  Fall, People, Going Away

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• At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

  Adepero Oduye

  Beautiful, Character, Play

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• For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

  Oren Peli

  Real, Style, Way

  "Behind the Scenes With Paranormal Activity Creator" by Joel Meares, www.wired.com. September 27, 2011.

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• Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

  Charley Pride

  Names, Politician, Well Known

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Kissing, Intelligent, Years

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• OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

  Joely Richardson

  Successful, Years, Careers

  "How I survived divorce, the tabloids and Jamie Theakston". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

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• If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Fun, Crazy, Long Ago

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• Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

  Rene Redzepi

  Cuisine, Danish, Pastries

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

  Sister Souljah

  African American, Riding, Bills

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• Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Quality

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.199

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