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5402 Known quotes by 3459 unique authors

My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex… — Bill Bryson
There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and… — Edward Condon
We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are… — Alfred W. Crosby
At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal. — Jeff Sessions
Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. — Dave Barry
We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What… — Unknown Author
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. — Albert Camus
By ignorance the truth is known. — Henry Suso
This report has been difficult to write because it involves something that doesn't officially exist. It is well known that ever since the first flying… — Unknown Author
Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could… — John Kenneth Galbraith
During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've… — Harriet Doerr
We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look. — Anne Lamott
In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and… — John O'Donohue
The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it… — Fulton J. Sheen
The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The… — Pope Benedict XVI
It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back… — C.S. Lewis
Im known for snatchin' purses and bombin' churches I get more pussy on accident then most niggas get on purpose — Big L
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy.… — Michael Novak
India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons,… — Edward Abbey
Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history… — Max Beerbohm
Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death. — Rajneesh
Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what life is, is… — Rajneesh
This is the fear: death will come and we have not lived yet. We are just preparing to live. Nothing is ready; life has not… — Rajneesh

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