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• I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

  Virgil Thomson

  Musician

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• Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into all languages, of all Christian people, and that they might be read and known.

  William Tyndale

  Christian, People, Desire

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• Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Numbers, Environmental, Restoration

  "Restore Hetch Hetchy Valley, Vote Yes! on Proposition F" by Matt Gonzalez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2012.

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• Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.

  Otis Chandler

  California, Southern, World

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• God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.

  David Platt

  Greatness, Might, Way

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• I don't want to be one of those people who falls out of cabs drunk. But I don't want to be known as some boring girl who just sits at home and doesn't do anything.

  Pixie Lott

  Girl, Fall, Home

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• When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!

  Annie Lennox

  Wish, World, Ends

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• I want to be known as a great businessman.

  Edward Lampert

  Want, Great Business, Businessman

  "Eddie Lampert: The best investor of his generation" by Patricia Sellers, money.cnn.com. February 6, 2006.

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• In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.

  Michael Behe

  Eye, Details, World

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• People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

  Wilhelm Stekel

  People, Understanding, Craving

  Wilhelm Stekel (1931). “Marriage at the Crossroads”

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• It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.

  Duffy

  Names, People, Decision

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• But I just want to be known for my football.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Football, Want

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• I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the known, the remembered, and the imagined, the literary triad of which all stories are made.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Book, Ideas, Stories

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• Feelings you have for each other will not be known unless you voice them.

  Kaoru

  Voice, Feelings

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• A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.

  Anuj

  Firsts, Opinion, Well Known

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• A wise man once said that a person is known by
  the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the
  company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially
  at the strategic decision making level.

  Anuj

  Wise, Character, Men

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• People who have known a person for many days but could never spot or appreciate his hidden talent in the first place, are likely to raise their suspicions on seeing him ever winning laurels in the life's race.

  Anuj

  Winning, Race, People

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• Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Knowing, Shepherds, Endless

  Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.175, Penguin

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• An industry devoted to serving the public's right to know gives twisted and evil men the means of becoming known. This problem is not obviously amenable to a solution, and it certainly is not amenable to a legal one. A regime of media regulation that would be both effective at preventing mass shootings and consistent with the American Constitution is no easier to imagine than a regime of gun regulation that would meet the same criteria.

  James Taranto

  Mean, Gun, Men

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• The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

  Clark Kerr

  United States, World, Higher Education

  Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade, Maureen Kawaoka (1994). “Troubled Times for American Higher Education: The 1990s and Beyond”, p.182, SUNY Press

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• Woodstock is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is good. It just means it's big.

  Grace Slick

  Country, Mean, People

  "What Grace Slick is doing now". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2009.

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• I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about "open source" thinking that I work under that banner.

  Richard Stallman

  Thinking, People, Alternatives

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot Interview, news.slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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• Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Tea, Want, Hell

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Known to the Lord from the beginning were all your sins. Nevertheless, He still loved you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sin, Lord, Stills

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• You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Knowing, Stillness Speaks, Conditions

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.19, New World Library

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