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• I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Summer, New York, Men

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• We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

  Langston Hughes

  Strong, Kwanzaa, Mountain

  Langston Hughes, Christopher C. De Santis (1995). “Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62”, p.5, University of Illinois Press

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• The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Country, Men

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• Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.

  Byron Katie

  Want, Peace Inside, Knows

  Twitter post from Feb 19, 2014

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• If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

  Byron Katie

  Teacher, Children, Happy Life

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.104, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fall, Sunset, Autumn

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

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• One of President Obama's winning points last night was about how sanctions against Iran are crippling their economy. And believe me, if anyone knows how to cripple an economy, it's President Obama.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Winning, Night

  "EARLY START WEEKEND: Hurricane Sandy Threatens East Coast; Undecided States in Focus; Miraculous Recovery of Malala; The Week That Was; Teenager Dies After Drinking Two Monster Energy Drinks". "CNN Saturday Morning News", edition.cnn.com. October 27, 2012.

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• The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Suicide, Real, Prevention

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Many successful people have fear, along with doubts and worries. The difference is that those who know how to succeed also know how to take action despite these worries and fears. You too can learn how to master fear, by understanding that fear is in our own minds, and therefore under our own control.

  T. Harv Eker

  Successful, Differences, People

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• Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Book, Writing, Heartbreaking

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• Dearest brothers and sisters who are so persecuted, I know how much you suffer, I know that you are stripped of everything. I am with you in the faith of the one who has conquered evil!

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Evil, Suffering

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• Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save it by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply, when they are cheapest and usually best, and you prepare them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work, when if you know how to do it, you can save all that money for yourself?

  Julia Child

  Home, Hamburgers, Pay

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• That’s the thing about change. It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable. Or it can be sudden, and you don’t even know how you could’ve been any other way.

  Penelope Douglas

  Way, Knows

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• I don't know how many years it was before I arrived at a formulated philosophy that the happiest thing to do, always, when visiting an individual or a country, is to admit, by word or manner, how much I'm finding there that my life had lacked hitherto

  Clara E. Laughlin

  Country, Philosophy, Years

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• I don't know how music works, I'm just glad that it does.

  Lou Brutus

  Doe, Glad, Knows

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2017

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• Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.

  Nicole Williams

  Caring, Scary, Heartbeat

  Nicole Williams (2012). “Crash”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Order, Knows

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• I can pick up any sport pretty quickly - believe me, I know how to throw a football.

  Marisa Miller

  Sports, Football, Believe

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• When you continue to give without receiving, the only thing you are proving is that you know how to be taken advantage of.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Taken, Giving, Receiving

  Twitter post from Apr 6, 2013

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• For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it. No created being can ever know how much and how sweetly and tenderly God loves them. It is only with the help of his grace that we are able to persevere in spiritual contemplation with endless wonder at his high, surpassing, immeasurable love which our Lord in his goodness has for us.

  Julian of Norwich

  Spiritual, Grace, Able

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• If you do not know how to care for money, money will stay away from you.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Care, Away From You, Knows

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• You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

  Guy Kawasaki

  Thinking, Blue, Sky

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• It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

  Penny Marshall

  Passion, Certain, Clarifying

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

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• If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

  Dale Carnegie

  Talking, Ideas, Long

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.82, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.

  Alicia Keys

  Fall, Risk, Feels

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