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5402 Known quotes by 3459 unique authors

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed? — Alexander Hamilton
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent… — Thomas Jefferson
It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can… — George Washington
Just remember... it doesn't matter how long you have known each other.. all that matters is that he has kept you smiling from day one — Cassie Ventura
Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known. — Janet Morris
In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to… — Karl Marx
The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose… — Leon Foucault
All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler,… — Justus von Liebig
We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe. — Richard Dawkins
I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make… — Merle Haggard
Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into… — Paul Zollo
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. — Ambrose Bierce
Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as far back as… — Morris K. Jessup
Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known… — Philip K. Dick
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it… — Andrew Solomon
A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have done and not by what has been… — Deborah Lipstadt
...The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur… — Noel Ignatiev
We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil… — Louis Thomas McFadden
I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever… — John Cornyn
While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of… — Gordon Cooper
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving… — Florence Nightingale
It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. — C. Northcote Parkinson

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