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• It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

  S. Robson Walton

  Years, Friendly, World

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• When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

  Trisha Yearwood

  People, Cooking, Compliment

  "Trisha's Southern Comfort". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.redbookmag.com. August 14, 2008.

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• According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Running, Moving, Law

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• I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Successful, Thinking, Ideas

  "Richard Zanuck: 'Chocolate Factory' and Beyond". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 11, 2005.

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• I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

  Solomon Northup

  Slavery, Speak, Observation

  Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.330, ShandonPress

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• I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that.

  Jonathan Hull

  People, Different, Faces

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.

  Tim Cahill

  Moving, Swimming, Whales

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• When there's nothing left, there's always music, that's all I've ever known.

  Jake Pitts

  Bvb, Left

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• We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.

  Sam Wineburg

  Kids, Past, Grandparent

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• For me, it’s about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you’re trying too hard and I don’t think that actually makes you look good. I’ve known from very early on that I don’t look perfect.

  Clemence Poesy

  Thinking, Perfect, Trying

  "Clémence Poésy interview: Casting a spell". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2010.

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• I travel with chocolate - Godiva with caramel. When the craving hits, I have to have it. I share, but if I'm on my last one, I've been known to say, 'Sorry, I'm out!'

  Christa B. Allen

  Sorry, Chocolate, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

  Avicenna

  Causes, All Things

  "On Medicine". Essay by Avicenna (circa 1020), as quoted in "The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East" edited by Charles F. Horne (Volume VI "Medieval Arabia", pp. 90-91), sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1917.

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• To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.

  PSY

  Song, Rocks, Korea

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• I came to realize, along with being attracted to girls, I had similar feelings for boys. All the people close to me have known for years who I am. Yet it took time to embrace that other part of who I always was.

  Joel Grey

  Girl, Boys, Who I Am

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• From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.

  Gyorgy Lukacs

  Responsibility, Fate, Thinking

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• You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Space, Sorrow, Gone

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• The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.

  James Hansen

  Long, Climate, Term

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• If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.

  Al-Ghazali

  God, Two, Gone

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• Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency

  Edward Hirsch

  Book, Knowledge, Consistency

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• The compelling thing about making art — or making anything, I suppose — is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Art, War, Army

  "The Time Traveler's Wife". Book by Audrey Niffenegger, 2003.

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• In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic.

  Peter Farb

  Science, Bridges, Long

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State”

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• When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.

  Arnon Goldfinger

  Country, War, Thinking

  Interview with Kristin McCracken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

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• I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.

  Silvio Scaglia

  Years, Giving, Entrepreneur

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• Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

  Jess Weixler

  Character, Actors, Character Actors

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• My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Years, Pay, Return

  "The Color of Money". Live discuss with Michelle Singletary, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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