Ada Lovelace
Mathematician, Writer
"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform."
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Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"There is no such thing as an ugly woman - there are only the ones who do not know how to make themselves attractive."
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?"
Muhammad
Religious Leader
"Do not tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you have traveled, and I will know how educated you are."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come."
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"All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait."
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"When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love."
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"We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has"
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"When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody."
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"When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it."
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"Never let no one know how much dough you hold."
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"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."
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"He who knows how will always work for he who knows why."
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"Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain."
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"I only know how to do me, so that's just what I'm going to do."
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"There is a dance that only you know how to do"
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"Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that."
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"A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite"
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"Life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God."
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"Become one of the rare people who don't know how to quit."
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"To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them."
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"If you do not know how to care for money, money will stay away from you."
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"I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over."
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"Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live."
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"Only the heart knows how to find what is precious."
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