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• But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

  Tom DeLonge

  Idols, Guy, Generations

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• There is much more of God available than we have ever known or imagined, but we have become so satisfied with where we are and what we have that we don’t press in for God’s best.

  Tommy Tenney

  Satisfied, Available, Presses

  Tommy Tenney (2005). “God Chasers”, p.22, Destiny Image Publishers

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• We can't have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past - something we learned, imagined, or desired. Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown - not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It's the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.

  Adyashanti

  Past, Reality, Ideas

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• Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.

  M. King Hubbert

  Two, Growth, Culture

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• Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothing that has happened in all of geologic history. The world will only tolerate so many doublings of anything -- whether it's power plants or grasshoppers.

  M. King Hubbert

  Years, Growth, Population

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• We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Forget, Crime

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• The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Men, May, Attorney

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.140

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• It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there .

  Andre Gide

  Should Have, Land, Doubt

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.276, Routledge

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• I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Regret, Looks, Littles

  1881 Letter to Richard Watson Dixon, 29 Oct. Collected in C C Abbott (ed) The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon (1935).

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• The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Principles, Negative

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Simple, May, Legends

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.348, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I was much an enemy to monarchies before I came to Europe. I am ten thousand times more so, since I have seen what they are. There is scarcely an evil known in these countries, which may not be traced to their king, as its source, nor a good, which is not derived from the small fibres of republicanism existing among them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Kings, Europe

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.98, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

  O. Henry

  Philosophy, War, Rip

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

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• I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing books about the living to the unborn (tucked away as Literature) or writing books about the unborn to the living (whiffed away as prophecy). I put up my life on advertising the living to the living, on making men of genius known to the people and interpreted to their time, that the time in which I live, may live face to face with its men of vision and that they may live face to face with one another.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Book, Writing, Men

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1919). “The House of Twenty Seven Gardens”

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• As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before.

  Margaret Atwood

  Imagine

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.193, Anchor

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• The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.

  Quentin Crisp

  Children, Greek, Monsters

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 3, 1968.

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• No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Lying, Sleep

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.316, Penguin

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• Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Years, Secret, Musical

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• We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

  Doris Lessing

  Truth, Stupid, Fighting

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Nice, People, Rude

  "Karl Lagerfeld’s Rude Quotes Don’t Affect The Way He’s Treated, Says Designer" By Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Men, America, Years

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.24, Stanford University Press

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• [My father] impressed upon me from the first, that the manner in which the world came into existence was a subject on which nothing was known: that the question, "Who made me?" cannot be answered, because we have no experience or authentic information from which to answer it; and that any answer only throws the difficulty a step further back, since the question immediately presents itself, "Who made God?

  John Stuart Mill

  Father, Information, Firsts

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.19, 谷月社

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• I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience. The interchange between the reader and the work. For example, I know far too much about Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. Because I know as much as I do about their personal lives, I can't read their work without this interjecting itself. So if I had it to do over, I'd probably go the way of J.D. Salinger or Thomas Pynchon. And just stay out of it altogether and let all the focus be on the work itself and not on me.

  Tom Robbins

  Reading, Thinking, Focus

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• A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Waiting, Company

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• Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture of appetite and altruism, as that group of avocations known as outdoor recreation. It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. But wherein lies the goodness, and what can be done to encourage its pursuit?

  Aldo Leopold

  Lying, War, People

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.165, Oxford University Press, USA

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