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I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

Joe Shuster

Views, Empathy, Leader

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It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

Douglas J. Feith

Iran, Kuwait, Tyrants

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The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names. Therefore, classification and name-giving will be the foundation of our science.

Carl Linnaeus

Science, Names, Ideas

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Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

Aberjhani

Self, Psychics, Awareness

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His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Blood, Ivy, Growth

Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'

Ronald Reagan

Cat, Fog, Feet

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Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Hope, Grief, Waste

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He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

Anthony Trollope

Punishment, Faces, Habit

'Autobiography' (1883) ch. 1

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In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.

Samuel Johnson

Wisdom, Men, Rights

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1832). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.587

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In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

Virginia E. Johnson

Medicine, Social, Draws

"Best of the Century" by Albert Ellis, www.psychologytoday.com. November 1, 1999.

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I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.

Jasmine Guinness

Best Friend, Baby, Should Have

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You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

Billy Graham

Christian, Jesus, Heart

Billy Graham (2003). “Breakfast with Billy Graham: 120 Daily Readings”, Testament

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I had no agenda in writing this play except expressing myself. . . . It later occurred to me that I was not only announcing things to my family; I was announcing it to the world. Of course, if the play had been a flop, only my family would have known.

Mart Crowley

Writing, Play, Agendas

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May God be pleased to make it known to you, and fill you increasingly with His Spirit, so that through you it may be poured into the souls you guide, and your own soul may be more greatly sanctified!

Vincent de Paul

Faith, Soul, May

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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The way of God was ever hated by the world and the powers thereof. Never heed the rough spirits nor the heavy, for their bound is set, and their limit known; but mind the Seed, which hath dominion over all. And forsake not the assembling of yourselves together in which you have found God and his promise and power and blessing amongst you, your understanding opened.

Francis Howgill

Blessing, Understanding, Promise

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On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of Terrence Jaxon, signatory of the One Law; great-great-nephew of the one known as Auntie, Last of the First; Peter of Souls, the Man of Days and the One Who Stood-took his position on the catwalk above Main Gate, waiting to kill his brother.

Justin Cronin

Summer, Brother, Son

Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.267, Ballantine Books

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To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser, more loving, more luminous states of being, we do not need to invent a new language. But we do need to listen to the old, the ancient one, not with our jaded minds, but with our awakened souls.

Arianna Huffington

Self, Soul, Mind

Arianna Huffington (2003). “Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility is a grace of the soul that cannot be expressed in words and is only known by experience. It is an unspeakable treasure of God, and only can be called the gift of God. Learn, He said, not from angels, not from men, not from books; but learn from My presence, light, and action within you, that I am meek and humble of heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.

William Bernard Ullathorne

Book, Heart, Humble

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The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself.

Albert Einstein

Math, Dark, Years

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A great deal more is known than has been proved.

Richard P. Feynman

Math, Deals, Has Beens

"The Music of the Primes : Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery of Mathematics". Book by Marcus du Sautoy, 2003.

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Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known.

W. W. Sawyer

Math, People, Would Be

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No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.

Micheal O Muircheartaigh

Beautiful, Sky, Roof

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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

Plato

Teacher, Learning, Science

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Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

William Cowper

War, Hero, Writing

William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1839). “Poems with a Memoir of the Author by Henry Stebbing”, p.268

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Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.

Thornton Willis

History, May, Muse

Willis Thornton (1992). “History: Facts and Fable”, Dorset Pr

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