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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the… — Nicolaus Copernicus
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint… — David Crystal
Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If… — Jefferson Davis
I find the lure of the unknown irresistible. — Sylvia Earle
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time. — Ralph Fiennes
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. — E. M. Forster
I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond… — Herbie Hancock
I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on… — Herbie Hancock
It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything… — Michael Haneke
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. — Nhat Hanh
A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown. — Tom Hanks
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. — William Hazlitt
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. — O. Henry
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The flesh is the surface of the unknown. — Victor Hugo
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in… — Thomas Huxley
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson
Failure is a word unknown to me. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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