"I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."
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"In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood."
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"In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!"
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"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well."
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"It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood."
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"In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change."
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"Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life."
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"My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation."
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"The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what happens between people when we recognize the absurdity of the belief that we're alone in anything."
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"What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable."
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"In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem."
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"If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end."
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"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."
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"Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable."
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"A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know."
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"Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."
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"Some people have style without even knowing it!"
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"Let's drop the whole 'atheist evangelism' thing and call out bullshit questions like 'what does atheism have to offer?' for just what they are: Bullshit. I mean, what does knowing that the Earth goes around the Sun have to offer? Who cares? It just is."
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"The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out."
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"The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots."
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