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• The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Southern, World

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.293, Penguin

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• I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Blessed, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• We can fly, you know. We just don't know how to think the right thoughts and levitate ourselves off the ground.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Knows

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• Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Real, Men, Discrimination

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• It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Dream, Men, Failing

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• In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows
  how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played.
  There's no one out there like Gretchen.

  Wayne Shorter

  Play, Way, Instruments

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• If you really know how to ask the question 'Who am I?' you will inevitably be delivered into that state of silence and pure consciousness that is your true Being. The question 'Who am I?' will ultimately deliver you into the 'I am' of you.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Silence, Consciousness, States

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• Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Serenity, Trials

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.

  Louise Erdrich

  Baby, Strong, Space

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• There comes a point in time when you must know that everything you have already given or done is enough. This is not something anyone else can tell you. You must know. Giving without receiving doesn't prove anything except that you know how to be taken advantage of.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Taken, Giving, Receiving

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 22, 2016

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• If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Violence, Passive

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• We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it's never a question of 'critical mass.' It's always about critical connections.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Connections, Fabric, World

  James Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs (1974). “Revolution and Evolution”, p.44, NYU Press

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• Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

  Tony La Russa

  Player, Saws, Young

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• It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

  John of the Cross

  Silence, Looks, Deeds

  St. John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross”, p.93, ICS Publications

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• Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Judging, Knows

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• I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.

  Louise Hay

  Perfect, Forgiving, Way

  Louise Hay (2016). “Mirror Work: 21 Days to Heal Your Life”, p.92, Hay House, Inc

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• There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.

  Bill Mollison

  Hands, Water, People

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• Joe Lauzon is not seen as the top guy in his division, He's not the champion. Do you know how many people go f--- crazy when I saw Joe Lauzon is on the card? Because people love to watch him fight. Joe Lauzon has won more fighter bonuses than I think anybody. If you are that guy, the system works for you. But if you are not that guy, then boo f--- hoo, you don't matter.

  Dana White

  Crazy, Fighting, Thinking

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• One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Silence, Joy

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• Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Grace, Needs, Fruit

  Twitter post from Feb 26, 2015

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• We will never know how much just a simple smile will do.

  Mother Teresa

  Simple, Simple Smile, Knows

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.11, New World Library

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• On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.

  Krishna Das

  Path, Impossible, Disappear

  Twitter post from Oct 01, 2013

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• I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.

  Jose Rizal

  Country, Wish, Conviction

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• The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

  Khalil Gibran

  Kings, Heart, Men

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Heaven, Overcoming

  "The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847".

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