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5402 Known quotes by 3459 unique authors

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not… — Emile Durkheim
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death… — David Mamet
It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in… — William Penn
To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once… — Henry David Thoreau
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own. — Pablo Picasso
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. — Thomas R. Pickering
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of… — Horace Mann
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who… — Samuel Johnson
The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence… — Adam Nicolson
This leg will be known as Christmas, and this leg will be known as New Year's Eve! Ladies...why don't you all come visit the Big… — Val Venis
Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must… — Hippocrates
It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws… — Lewis Terman
If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started. — Andy Rooney
Dollars have never been known to produced character, and character will never be produced by money. — Will Keith Kellogg
I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why? Because wrestling requires… — John Irving
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker… — Henry Ward Beecher
Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known. — Rajneesh
That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration. — Rajneesh
LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it. — Timothy Leary
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one… — Jean Cocteau
As for the people of Tasawwuf, they affirm the love of Allah, and this is more evident among them than all other issues....the affirmation of… — Ibn Taymiyyah
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs. — Marie-Luise Gothein
Fair-goes are not only for oneself, but for underdogs. Even in international sporting matches Australians have been known to switch from their own side to… — Donald Horne
It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley

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