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• The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought.

  Kenneth E. Iverson

  Tools, Language, Programming

  "Notation as a Tool of Thought". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), August 1980.

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• It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as well as we do, will never close with us at all, but stand aloof and knock us to pieces with their culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. So we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Hurt, Fighting, Gun

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• A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Gentleman

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• It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Charles Dudley Warner (2005). “In the Wilderness”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Charles Dudley Warner (1878). “In the Wilderness”, p.26, Syracuse University Press

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• I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well-known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Grateful, Opportunity

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

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• My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some things of such Consequence still depending there, relating to my particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work; perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons or Crimes.

  Daniel Defoe

  Book, Names, Records

  Daniel Defoe (1993). “Moll Flanders”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

  George Brandis

  Teacher, Growing Up, Home

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

  Robert Morgan

  Long, People, Narrative

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• It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known.

  Robert Atkins

  Simple, Play, Energy

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• And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with horror on the greatest part of mankind? Plutarch, it is well known, has observed very justly that it is better not to believe in a god than to believe him to be a capricious and malevolent being.

  Richard Price

  Religious, Believe, Sacrifice

  Richard Price (1983). “The Correspondence of Richard Price: February 1786-February 1791”

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• I have walked many times around the world and each time it's different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It's really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions.

  Philippe Petit

  Sky, Creating, Space

  Source: collider.com

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• You avoid the overcrowding of tourist locations by traveling in off-season. That is now one of the major rules of smart travel - go when the tourists are NOT there, and even though you may have to don an extra layer of clothing, you will enjoy the sights and the experiences at the destination in the way that they were enjoyed before they became so well-known.

  Arthur Frommer

  Smart, Sight, Tourists

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• I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because "no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view."

  Donna Tartt

  Successful, Views, Editors

  "Donna Tartt and Michael Pietsch". Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.

  Cate Blanchett

  Battle, Trying, Events

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

  John Dyer

  Art, Growing Up, Father

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• The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.

  Jack Nicholson

  Rooms, Hotel, Difficult

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• While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

  John Linder

  Memorial Day, Numbers, Battle

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• Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.

  Neil Postman

  Attention, Research, Pay

  Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner (1973). “The school book: for people who want to know what all the hollering is about”

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• A celebrity is someone famous for being well known

  Morris Fishbein

  Wells, Known

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• I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

  George Brandis

  Reading, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of letters, for that is what he is, in the eighteenth-century meaning. But they can't buy that because the word doesn't exist in Time-style; he cannot be that, and presumably the old function of letters cannot exist.

  Paul Goodman

  Men, Style, Magazines

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.133, New York Review of Books

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• It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.

  Stephen Colbert

  Reality, Facts, Bias

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• Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

  Joseph Conrad

  Writing, Reality, Speech

  1911 Under Western Eyes, prologue.

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• It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Games, Chess, Ends

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