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Clara Schumann quote: "If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known..."
If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy. Clara Schumann
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. David Brooks
Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school. Georg Brandes
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. John Ruskin
Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'. Bill Bixby
Ambrose Bierce quote: "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor..."
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia. Ahmed Ben Bella
The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context. Chuck Barris
Howard Nemerov quote: "When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new..."
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all. Howard Nemerov
Henry B. Adams quote: "The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong."
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. Henry B. Adams
Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman, the god-within... underlying its whirlpool of transient feelings, emotions, and delusions is the self-luminous, abiding point of the transpersonal god. As the sun lights the world even when cloud-covered, “the Immutable is never seen but is the Witness; it is never heard but is the Hearer; it is never thought but is the Thinker; it is never known but is the Knower. ... Huston Smith
A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved - the cloth laying for me in the dining room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows. Robert Louis Stevenson
she had never known who she was at all, except sometimes for a moment in meditation, when her I am became It is, and she breathed the stars Ursula K. Le Guin
Listen, lady," he said in a high voice, "if I had of been there [to see Jesus raise the dead] I would of known and I wouldn't be like I am now." His voice seemed about to crack and the grandmother's head cleared for an instant. She saw the man's face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, "Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children!" She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her... Flannery O'Connor
Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today. Mother Teresa

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