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• When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Relationship, Money, Taken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

  George Eliot

  Two Sides, Wells, Ifs

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.561, Broadview Press

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• Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Marriage, Air

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• When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact, until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.

  Aberjhani

  Reading, Past, Years

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• Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.7

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• There are “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Talking, People, Laughing

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously...I'm Kidding”, p.128, Hachette UK

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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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• Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How can you make a great - or even an adequate - bouillabaisse if you've never had any? If you don't really understand why people read mysteries - or romances or literary novels or thrillers or whatever - then there's no way in the world you're going to write one that anyone wants to publish. This is the meaning of the well-known expression "Write what you know."

  Daniel Quinn

  Writing, Expression, People

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• This fond attachment to the well-known place
  Whence first we started into life's long race,
  Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway,
  We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.

  William Cowper

  Home, Race, Attachment

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.224

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• ...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, Done, Ingredients

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Nov 23, 2016

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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've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed corporate hacks or the lowly stalkers who seek to libel me or make a buck off the fact that I'm a well-known person.

  Michael Moore

  Hours In The Day, Enemy, Bucks

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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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• 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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• 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 well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Reading, Heart, Growth

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.4, Macmillan

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• My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

  Maya Lin

  Father, Artist, Firsts

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Famous Inspirational, Heart, Simple

  Press Statement issued the day before her marriage to Aristotle Onassis, "The New York Times", October 20, 1968.

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• Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come

  Mitch Albom

  Beautiful, Missing, Doe

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one. But, as in their reading and arithmetic and drawing, different children proceed at different speeds. (It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.) Some small ones are terrible and fey, Utterly Heartless. Some are dear and sweet and Hardly Heartless at all.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sweet, Children, Reading

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• Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. So it goes. Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Home, Fire, Cities

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• But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

  Frank Herbert

  Wells, Repression, Known

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.328, Penguin

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• It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Confusion, Ruins, Facts

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• It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!

  Nikolai Gogol

  Eye, Let It Go, Finishing

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.93, Vintage

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• Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.

  Eoin Colfer

  Sound, Sense Of Humor, Ignored

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