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• What you have known of this life so far is only a dream, a slim dream at that. As one who has traveled greatly in the worlds, I can assure you there is much to see and much to become.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Other Worlds

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• We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is the Kali Yuga, the dark age. At the end of a cycle, Vishnu takes incarnation as a person. Vishnu is that aspect of God that preserves and protects life. When Vishnu leaves, Shiva comes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Dark, Childhood

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• I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.

  Michael Schenker

  Play, Sound, Deep Within

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• I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private about it. She - when I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. So I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.

  Michael Shannon

  Mother, Religious, Growing Up

  "Going Under The 'Boardwalk' With Michael Shannon". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 14, 2012.

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• I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

  William Sanderson

  Intellectual, Range, Tricks

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• I've always known I wanted a family.

  Charlize Theron

  Wanted

  "Charlize Theron’s Baby News" by Lauren Milligan, www.vogue.co.uk. August 03, 2015.

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• Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Labour Movement, Realization, Organized Labor

  "An Ideal Labor Press". The Metal Worker, May 1904.

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• In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.

  Georges Rouault

  Thinking, Essentials, Facts

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• I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Pathways

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• One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you've always known has been there. You'll find there will be no train in sight, with no sense of arrival. There is only a perpetual arrival, a timeless condition of infinite awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Sight

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• The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.

  Criss Jami

  Hands, Feelings, Contentment

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.104, Criss Jami

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• If i had known... i would have lingered over my coffee a little longer.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Coffee, Farewell, Littles

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• A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Mother, Father, Expression

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• I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries that have that are known for it, but Haiti has been so focused inwards, on its problems.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Beautiful, Country, Islands

  "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I don't want to become known as just a body.

  Taylor Lautner

  Body, Want

  "Taylor Lautner: 'I Would Never Take My Shirt Off Again in a Movie'". www.aceshowbiz.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

  Aasif Mandvi

  Children, Making Love, Hot

  "I get to sit on the fence between cultures" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2009.

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• I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

  Grant Morrison

  People, Comic, Reader

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 19, 2010.

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• I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.

  Jack McBrayer

  Teacher, Jobs, Hate

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. February 27, 2007.

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• I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).

  Eric McCormack

  Get Well, Fall, Thinking

  "What I know about women". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.

  Ethel Merman

  Care, Able, Angry

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.

  Allison Williams

  Hurt, New York, Couple

  "‘Girls’ Star Allison Williams On Her Masturbation Scene, Lena Dunham And More". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2012.

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• Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

  Joe Wright

  Film, Fit, Behave

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

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• I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Successful, Thinking, Ideas

  "Richard Zanuck: 'Chocolate Factory' and Beyond". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 11, 2005.

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• I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

  Solomon Northup

  Slavery, Speak, Observation

  Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.330, ShandonPress

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• Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.

  Tim Cahill

  Moving, Swimming, Whales

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