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• Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Dog, Mean, Home

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• The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.

  Terence McKenna

  Data, Expectations, Psychedelic

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• Nobody knows you better than you do.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Better Than You

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• Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

  Claude Shannon

  Mean, Cybernetics, Use

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• The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back to earth for more than two and a half years. The difficulties of a trip to mars are formidable. . . . What curious information will these first explorers carry back from Mars? Nobody knows-and its extremely doubtful that anyone now living will ever know. All that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made . . . someday.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Home, Men

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• Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into existence not by Lincoln but by the great emancipators nobody knows, the abolitionists and congressional leaders who created the climate and generated the pressure that goaded, prodded, drove, forced Lincoln into glory by associating him with a policy that he adamantly opposed for at least fifty-four of his fifty-six years of his life.

  Lerone Bennett, Jr.

  Years, Leader, Climate

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• Nobody knows because Team Obama has conveniently arranged for you to be kept in the dark on your health insurance costs until after everyone votes next week.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Team, Dark, Next Week

  "How High Will Your Health Insurance Premiums Go In 2015?". townhall.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Writing, Magic, Know How

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• Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

  Casey Stengel

  Yankees, Cities, Kansas City

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• Nobody knows I'm different. Or they may know, but they don't know how different and they don't know what this thing is that's driving me because I can't... this is... these are charges ... which I understand having got two children of my own and having had these mad thoughts myself that you know, I've got to get out there and do something. I don't know what it is, but it's got to be interesting.

  Derek Taylor

  Children, Two, Mad

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• A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.

  Heidi Julavits

  Girl, School, Mean

  Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.172, Anchor

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• Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.

  Zhuangzi

  Light, Earth, Way

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• It is the anonymous "they," the enigmatic "they" who are in charge. Who is "they"? I don't know. Nobody knows. Not even "they" themselves.

  Joseph Heller

  Knows, Enigmatic

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

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• An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

  Bill Vaughan

  Done, Way, Reform

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• It (Congress) is a funny party. It is the largest political organization in the world but perhaps does not have a single rule or regulation. We create new rules every two minutes and then dump them. Nobody knows the rules in the party

  Rahul Gandhi

  Party, Organization, Two

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• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Thinking, Our World

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1900). “Pamphlets. Translated from the Russian”

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• The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mean, Media

  WBAI Radio Interview, January 1992.

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• "Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

  Charles Bukowski

  Baby, Genius, Said

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski (Chapter 31), 1975.

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• That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Want, Propaganda

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.26, Seven Stories Press

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• She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 13, 2011

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• Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying. Nobody knows what the long-term effect will be.

  David Suzuki

  Lying, Gmos, Long

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