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5402 Known quotes by 3459 unique authors

Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver. — John M. McHugh
Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community. — Jim Gerlach
Or hast thou known the world so long in vain? — John Dryden
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or… — John Dryden
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for… — Walt Whitman
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits… — Shirley Chisholm
The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to… — Joseph McCarthy
This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of… — Edward Abbey
There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with… — Edward Abbey
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. — Thomas Jefferson
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the… — Benjamin Franklin
Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would… — Thomas Paine
I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage to do it… — Robert Adams
I remember I autographed it to Mutt Lange, and I may only have put one t on Mutt. I mean, I'd never heard of such… — Shania Twain
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects… — Orson Scott Card
I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to… — James Madison
I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird. — Carly Rae Jepsen
I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by… — Peter Carey
There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be… — Carl Jung
Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to… — B.F. Skinner
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the… — William James
Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known. — Viola Spolin
Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God. — Karl Marx
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has… — Pericles

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