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5402 Known quotes by 3459 unique authors

I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to… — E L Doctorow
We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two. If I could… — Benjamin Bloom
I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk,… — Alex Webb
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker
One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters together!… — Fred Reinfeld
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt… — Max Euwe
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There… — Robert Heinecken
In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling… — Wynn Bullock
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. — Henry David Thoreau
Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms. — Paul Q. Hirst
Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head — Siegbert Tarrasch
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to… — Wendell Berry
The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on… — William O. Douglas
WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man. — Ambrose Bierce
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay… — Thomas Jefferson
By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank. — Alec Waugh
Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples. — Wilbert J. McKeachie
I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. — William E. Gladstone
Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. Even if I have only known them a day, it… — George Harrison
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods… — Max Beerbohm
Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy compared with the… — John Maynard Keynes
Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved… — Mario Puzo
Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities. — Assar Lindbeck
I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their… — Donald Trump
Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the… — Johan Norberg

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