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Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want to, even when… — Paulo Coelho
If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals… — Paulo Coelho
I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt… — Jorge Luis Borges
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from… — Sophocles
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the… — Jean Cocteau
Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably… — Charles Darwin
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or… — Philippe Halsman
So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein - more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your… — Rose Tremain
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space… — Graham Swift
The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and… — Alberto Giacometti
I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope. — John Lennon
So I wanted to write a play that put some thoughts and feelings in the air about the miracle and the mystery and that alluded… — Unknown Author
The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of… — Woodrow Wilson
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown… — Noam Chomsky
We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going… — Betty Williams
It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday:… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism. — Dallin H. Oaks
Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming… — Boyd K. Packer
Let us resolve to follow the Savior and work with diligence to become the person we were designed to become. Let us listen to and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among… — June Jordan
A different image came to me a few weeks ago.The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth orhard marl,… — Alexander Grothendieck
We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have… — Alan Keyes

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