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• Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Running, Motivation, Philadelphia

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• It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Business, Party, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of nurturance known as The Goddess, so revered in ancient times and being rediscovered by women today.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  God, Mother, Divine Feminine

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, p.51, Random House

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• I have never known stage-fright at any time.

  Kate Smith

  Fear, Stage, Fright

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• Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.

  St. Jerome

  Christian, Boys, Men

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• A secret love is beautiful, sweet and sacred when it's just a light infatuation; but when that person reaches over and touches you in the heart, making it alive in a way it has never known, that secret love becomes frightening, because you can never make them love you, you would never want to make them love you...but all the same, no matter which way you view it, they don't love you...and your heart doesn't know how to beat the same.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Beautiful, Sweet, Love You

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• Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Philosophy, War, Responsibility

  Physics in the ContemporaryWorld (1947)

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• I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

  Richard Briers

  Theatre, Tvs, Recycling

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• We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

  John Stott

  Generosity, Stewardship, Greater

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• Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Life, Singing, Bottles

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• The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

  Laozi

  Clever, Powerful, War

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• Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Husband, Children, Father

  Hillary Cinton's speech at the conference on domestic violence in San Salvador, El Salvador, clintonwhitehouse3.archives.gov. November 17, 1998.

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• My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

  Elliott Gould

  Problem

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• Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Fruit, Delicious

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• The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Real, Views

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• I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

  Idina Menzel

  Unique, Giving, Singing

  "Idina Menzel: From Broadway To The Symphony". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 19, 2012.

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• I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

  Bella Thorne

  Years, Three, Four

  "Meet Shake It Up's Bella Thorne!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 4, 2010.

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• I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my life remains unscathed by trouble and grief. How can I hope to grasp anything of God's heart for this broken planet if I never weep because its brokenness touches me and breaks my heart? How can I reflect his image if I never share in his sufferings? And how will any of us ever learn to treasure his hesed and grace if we never experience phases where these blessings seem absent?

  Carolyn Custis James

  Jesus, Grief, Heart

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• Lets make it known that we don't want to give away our beautiful homeland to corporate interests. It is our right as Canadians to be part of these decisions. The only thing standing between this world and environmental catastrophe is us

  Grimes

  Beautiful, Giving, Decision

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• Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.

  Jessa Gamble

  Animal, Light, Cells

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• But I’ve also been known to answer to ‘sweetheart’ or ‘handsome.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Answers, Handsome, Sweetheart

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.154, Macmillan

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• In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be obscure, to be off the beaten path, to be in the wilderness feels like abandonment. It seems more like exile than a vacation. To be so far off of everyone’s radar that the world might forget about us for a while? That’s almost akin to death…[But] far from being punishment, judgment, or a curse, the wilderness is a gift. It’s where we can experience the primal delight of being fully known and delighted in by God.

  Jonathan Martin

  Vacation, Media, Punishment

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• The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

  Michio Kaku

  Block, Cities, Brain

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• If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Generations, Mormonism, World

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• There are vistas never dreamed of, there are joys never even known, there are glories no past glory ever surpassed. These wait for you but only if you accept my legacy and help bring these things about.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Past, Joy, Waiting

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