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CRISS JAMI If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
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SUFJAN STEVENS Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER We only dream of things we know and people that we've seen... War and pain is all I know, it is all ...
NADèGE RICHARDS The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken.
JOHN LEACH Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Ji...
BENMONT TENCH We cannot wish for that we know not.
VOLTAIRE Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, th...
DONALD H. RUMSFELD You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ...
MITCH ALBOM Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do importa...
JOHN CLEESE It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate wh...
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GREGOR GOLOB There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to ...
CHRIS WEITZ Its much more easier to know just one thing about everything in this universe than to know everythin...
OJAS VISHWAKARMA So many people shall regret three great things tomorrow; things they did, things they did not do and...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy ...
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KAREN MILLS We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON Even though we've devoted our lives to music, we both know that the most important things happen wit...
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BARBARA CARLTON Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cann...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
MICHAEL FARADAY We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we...
BLAISE PASCAL The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
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BERTRAND RUSSELL people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ Oh yeah, this is important. We know it. They know it. Everybody knows it.
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DONALD RUMSFELD Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, th...
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SURAJ DAHAL To stand on the
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ELISABETH ELLIOT To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true...
COPERNICUS To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true...
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G. BRIAN BENSON We now know that [this issue] is very important to them and we know a large majority of them want to...
KRISTER ANDERSON The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
JOSH BILLINGS I know his intent of the speech is that we all work together. And I know we will.
KATHLEEN WALSH Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
BETTE DAVIS To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowled...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "te...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on...
WILLIAM GOLDING I just dont know how...to think less. If you know how, then teach me...
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CARRIE RYAN That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking ...
PHILIPUS AUREOLUS PARACELSUS That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking ...
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VIRONIKA TUGALEVA What we think we know is because we think we know. But how do we first know how to think? Even how d...
EPHDAN The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know dee...
JORGE LUIS BORGES Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, tha...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If it doesnt help, I damned sure dont know what will.
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SOTONYE ANGA Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and unders...
ALBERT EINSTEIN You dont know your wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.
MICHAEL PARENTI A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do...
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ZORA NEALE HURSTON It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND We just know that if we see things and we can execute, then we can do it.
ASA RANKINS Each of us know all there is to know about everything we want to know.
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ALEXIS HERMAN It is not for the faint-hearted, but it is important that we
know what we were fighting for,
DOUG HENDERSON I dont know that happened.
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CLAIRE MESSUD How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?
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TIGER YUVRAJ To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think t...
SOCRATES If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.
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LAILA ALI My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I ...
LAILA ALI I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
LAILA ALI I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'...
LAILA ALI I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working ...
LAILA ALI I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because...
LAILA ALI I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap va...
LAILA ALI Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
LAILA ALI People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If...
LAILA ALI I like to play by my own rules.
LAILA ALI My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated...
LAILA ALI You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
LAILA ALI While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind w...
LAILA ALI I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and ma...
LAILA ALI I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante...
LAILA ALI I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
LAILA ALI There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just lis...
MAHERSHALA ALI My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was al...
MAHERSHALA ALI I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
MAHERSHALA ALI People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.
MAHERSHALA ALI In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It'...
MAHERSHALA ALI At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the ...
MAHERSHALA ALI I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, dep...
MAHERSHALA ALI Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It'...
MAHERSHALA ALI In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is diff...
MAHERSHALA ALI I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the ri...
MAHERSHALA ALI You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse wor...
MAHERSHALA ALI I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to wh...
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