 Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. Author: A. C. Benson
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| But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. Author: Abdurrahman Wahid
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| The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise. Author: Aeschylus
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| Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. Author: Agnes de Mille
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| You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. Author: Alan Alda
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| No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants. Author: Alan Bates
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| Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. Author: Alan Bennett
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| Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. Author: Alan Cohen
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| Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. Author: Alan Watts
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| The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Author: Albert Einstein
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| Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it? Author: Albert J. Nock
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| No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. Author: Aldrich Ames
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| This is how I define grace: you're on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That's where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I'm prepared. Author: Alex Rodriguez
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| In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened. Author: Alexander Dubcek
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| Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. Author: Alfred Adler
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| It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. Author: Alice Walker
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| In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem. Author: Allen Tate
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| I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him. Author: Alton Brown
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| The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it. Author: Anderson Cooper
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| It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. Author: Andre Gide
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| For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better. Author: Andrea Martin
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| It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on. Author: Andrew J. Bacevich
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| Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike. Author: Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
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| Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself. Author: Anne Parillaud
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| The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to a policy of openness and transparency. Author: Anne Weismann
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| A good photograph is knowing where to stand. Author: Ansel Adams
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| Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage. Author: Anthea Turner
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| He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with. Author: Antonio Porchia
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| The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. Author: Aristotle
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| All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob. Author: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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| True knowledge lies in knowing how to live. Author: Baltasar Gracian
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| I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor. Author: Barbara Feldon
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| I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected. Author: Barry White
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| I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why. Author: Barry Zito
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| Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. Author: Ben Stein
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| Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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| The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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| That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us. Author: Benny Goodman
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| It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience. Author: Bernadette Peters
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| No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud. Author: Bernard Ebbers
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| Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. Author: Bertrand Russell
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| Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. Author: Bertrand Russell
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| I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. Author: Bertrand Russell
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| There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is. Author: Bill Bradley
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| First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids. Author: Bill Condon
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| We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product. Author: Bing Crosby
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| My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts. Author: Blanche Lincoln
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| Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds. Author: Bob Hayes
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| All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are. Author: Bob Ney
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| I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently. Author: Boris Kodjoe
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| You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes. Author: Boris Vallejo
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| But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was. Author: Brett Favre
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| German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case. Author: Brian Lumley
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| Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. Author: Brian Tracy
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| At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in. Author: Brooke Shields
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| And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone. Author: Bruce Nauman
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| Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it. Author: Bryant H. McGill
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| Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it. Author: Bryant H. McGill
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| True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. Author: Bryant H. McGill
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| Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. Author: Burt Bacharach
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| We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time. Author: Buzz Osborne
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| By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that. Author: Camilla Belle
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| Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. Author: Carl Jung
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| All this happens without him knowing - they actually install cameras in his apartment and hire this girl to get him to fall in love with her so that she can be in the apartment and present him products without him knowing. Author: Caroline Dhavernas
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| I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical. Author: Catherine Deneuve
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| People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement. Author: Cathy McMorris
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| The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. Author: Cesare Pavese
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| In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. Author: Charles de Montesquieu
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| Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. Author: Charles de Montesquieu
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| The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. Author: Charles de Montesquieu
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| The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. Author: Charles de Secondat
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| Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. Author: Charles Kettering
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| There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. Author: Charles Kettering
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| Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Author: Charles Spurgeon
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| I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships. Author: Christina Applegate
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| One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends. Author: Christopher Knight
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| The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation. Author: Clarence Day
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| One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work. Author: Claudia Black
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| Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet. Author: Clifford D. Simak
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| In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need. Author: Colleen Atwood
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| Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were. Author: Colleen Atwood
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| I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability. Author: Confucius
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| The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole. Author: Corrine Brown
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| I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for. Author: Dan Hawkins
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| You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset. Author: Dan O'Brien
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| There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that. Author: Daniel Day-Lewis
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| We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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| But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better. Author: Daniela Hantuchova
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| I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging. Author: Danny Elfman
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| She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted. Author: David Brin
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| When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas. Author: David Brooks
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| Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die. Author: David Hackworth
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| All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. Author: David Herbert Lawrence
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| Men often act knowingly against their interest. Author: David Hume
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| And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. Author: David Jones
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| The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. Author: David Lee Roth
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| I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right. Author: David R. Ellis
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| Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest. Author: David Sanborn
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| Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. Author: David Starr Jordan
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