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- Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer…
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if…
- If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and…
- This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal,…
- It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life…
- Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know…
- When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to…
- I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What…
- WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a…
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
- There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again…
- You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
- If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
- To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is…
- To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
- The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
- We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
- We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
- If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean that food is…
- Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.…
- It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is…
- To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
- ...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
- You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a…
- We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We…
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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong