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Knowing Quotes (page 708)

John Lennon quote: "You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well,..."
You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other. John Lennon
I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't know, because I won't ever dare ask that question. Dylan Thomas
Jerzy Kosinski quote: "When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely."
When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely. Jerzy Kosinski
I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain that? I will tell you: in consequence of their limitation they take immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and in that way persuade themselves more quickly and easily than other people do that they have found an infallible foundation for their activity, and their minds are at ease and you know that is the chief thing. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Douglas Adams quote: "He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy,..."
He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be. Douglas Adams
Joan Didion quote: "I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing."
I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing. Joan Didion
You know, it's a funny thing. The only Romance language Felipe doesn't happen to speak is Italian. But I go ahead and say it to him anyway, just as we're about to jump. I say: 'Attraversiamo.'Let's cross over. Elizabeth Gilbert
I may be older and wiser, I may have lived another life since then, but I know that when my time eventually comes, the memories of that day will be the final images that float through my mind. I still love her, you see, and Ive never removed my ring. In all these years Ive never felt the desire to do so. Nicholas Sparks
but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation. Simone de Beauvoir
The ancient Ionians were the first we know of to argue systematically that laws and forces of Nature, rather than gods, are responsible for the order and even the existence of the world. Carl Sagan
Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory. Vilfredo Pareto
Sylvia Plath quote: "I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't..."
I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am. Sylvia Plath
Thomas Hardy quote: "Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels..."
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these trick? Thomas Hardy
Gale Hawthorne: Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are. Suzanne Collins
You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough. Ursula K. Le Guin

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