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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable. — W. Edwards Deming
We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we… — Alan Watts
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark… — Walter Bagehot
Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning. — W. Brett Wilson
It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and… — Alan Bradley
In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were… — Wilfred Burchett
Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to… — Gene Roddenberry
There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors. That said, it… — Peter Lynch
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown… — Anne Fadiman
When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own… — Tim Cahill
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. — Stephen Gardiner
Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of… — Henry Van Dyke
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. — Alexander Pope
We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you. — Charles Stanley
Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by… — Janusz Korczak
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives… — Alan Watts
You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible. — Unknown Author
The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this… — John Milton
With cancer, there's always that doubt-that unknown. The only thing you can do is be positive. — Unknown Author
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is… — George Bernard Shaw
Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home. — Giovanni Giocondo
Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and… — Germaine Greer

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