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• We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with machines, votes, and dollars. A measure of success in this is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau's dictum: In wilderness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men.

  Aldo Leopold

  Life, Running, Men

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain", p. 133, 1949.

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• The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have been subjected to human interference and control. One of these is man himself (medicine and public health). The other is land (agriculture and coservation). The effort to control the health of land has not been very successful.

  Aldo Leopold

  Successful, Men, Self

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.229, Library of America

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• The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Independent, Men, Self

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• When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

  Stevie Wonder

  Religious, Religion, World

  Song: Have A Talk With God

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• I know you haven't made your mind up yet But I would never do you wrong I've known it from the moment that we met No doubt in my mind where you belong

  Adele

  Relationship, Mind, Doubt

  Song: Make You Feel My Love, Album: 19, 2008

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• She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress

  Taylor Swift

  Music, Thinking, Doe

  Song: Better Than Revenge, Album: Speak Now

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• Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

  Martin Van Creveld

  War, People, Majority

  Martin Van Creveld (2009). “Transformation of War”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.

  Mary Cheney

  Gay, People, United States

  Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books

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• A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Girl, People, Spices

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• I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

  Dakota Fanning

  College, Parent, Vision

  "Dakota Fanning Single, Admits She ‘Cannot Be Bothered’ With Boys", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2013.

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• You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

  Fred Frith

  Years, Musician, Firsts

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• Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, “Identity Thief,” and Rex Reed, who’s a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don’t know what the right “ism” for it is, but I think that there’s a level of that that’s happening that’s certainly not okay.

  Josh Gad

  Bullying, Thinking, Identity

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 13, 2013.

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• The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Looks, Today, Modern

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

  Virgil Goode

  Two, Liberty, Lines

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• As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Thinking, Hollywood, Actors

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• I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.

  Amy Hempel

  Needs, Stories, Lines

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• It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It's not what I want to be known as.

  Armie Hammer

  Fighting, Thinking, Careers

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

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• I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

  Charlie Hunter

  Would Be, Jam, Band

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• Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Well Known, Wells, Menstruation

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.428, Read Books Ltd

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• I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and resonates with biographical detail about not only my career, but all the people that I've worked with in my career. All of it's riddled, on- and off-camera, with people I've known and worked with for decades.

  Mark Hamill

  Book, Thinking, Careers

  "An Interview With Mark Hamill" by Ken P., www.ign.com. February 3, 2004.

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• I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

  Chanel Iman

  Personality, Black, Want

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• Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

  Darrell Issa

  Greatness, Class, Creating

  "Interview with Representative Darrell Issa". "The Situation Room" with Jim Acosta, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 28, 2012.

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• I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Jobs, Hard Work, Thinking

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

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• I love a good fitted suit. England is known for men who can wear good suits.

  Joe Jonas

  Men, Suits, England

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• I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Girl, Boys, Littles

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