Well Known Quotes

• Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Native American, Steps

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Book, Writing

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• Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

  William Goldman

  War, Land, Lines

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.116, A&C Black

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• It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

  Douglas Adams

  Jobs, People, President

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Twelfth" (radio program) (1980) See Twain 14

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• It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

  Raj Chetty

  Unemployment, Benefits, Duration

  Raj Chetty (2005). “Why Do Unemployment Benefits Raise Unemployment Durations?: The Role of Borrowing Constraints and Income Effects”

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• Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.

  Joshua Slocum

  Steps, Wells, Known

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.103, Applewood Books

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• I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

  Richard Briers

  Theatre, Tvs, Recycling

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• At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.

  Gore Vidal

  Hate, Men, Sky

  "America First? America Last? America at Last?". Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, April 20, 1992.

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• Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Retirement, Moving, Support

  "10 Actions Consumers Can Take to Reinvent Capitalism" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2011.

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• At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.

  Sean William Scott

  Character, Careers, Phases

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• It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Grace, Doe, Looks

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Usa, America

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  Nancy Reagan

  Country, Husband, Leader

  "Margaret Thatcher dies: news and reaction" by Andrew Sparrow, Barry Neild, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  World, Today, Authority

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• Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Bird, Sometimes, Time Passing

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out. If something's bugging my ass on any particular day, I'm probably going to say something about it, but I'm not going to go on a tirade. I dislike George Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that...I've said it, you know? It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.

  Patterson Hood

  Mean, Guy, Political

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• I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

  Lawrence Welk

  Nice, Successful, Pitfalls

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

  Sally Ride

  Girl, School, Dumb

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• Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.

  Donatella Versace

  Powerful, Men, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

  Alanis Morissette

  Lullaby, Wells, Knows

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• I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

  Maimonides

  Men, Differences, Intellectual

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.123, Aeterna Press

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• It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

  Naomi Wolf

  Ignorance, Oil, America

  "America's drought of political will on climate change" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2012.

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• I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

  Bob Woodward

  College, Names, Stories

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