"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments."
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"Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing."
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"Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage."
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"When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have your hands open toward prayer, you are able to stretch out your arms and let yourself be led without knowing where. You know only the freedom which God's breath has brought you will lead to new life, even if the cross is the only sign of it you can see."
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"Style is about fun. True style is not about having a closet full of expensive and beautiful things - it is instead about knowing when, where, and how to utilize your collection."
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"Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed."
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"Im an extremist so Im either hated or loved. I think its down to when I first got to Formula One not always knowing what I was saying, saying things that mean one thing but people were taking the other way and then people dont forget."
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"Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far."
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"It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously."
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"Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved."
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"The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny."
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"As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends."
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"I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing."
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"A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it."
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"Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it."
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"The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past."
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"While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did."
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"Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object."
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"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."
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"No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity."
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