"A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one."
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"Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true."
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"There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing"
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"I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any."
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"Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it."
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"Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking."
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"He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own."
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"Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour all the inarticulate perceptions, all the knowings and unknowings she felt, which, though he couldn't understand them really, he would receive reverently, and out of him would come then the advice, the warnings, the clever decisions she could never have made."
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"The not knowing would not keep me from caring."
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"Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness."
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"It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become."
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"I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end."
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"You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer."
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"Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite knowing where you were going to go next with the material. With a computer it was less like painting and more like sculpture, where you start with a block of something and then start shaping it."
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"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."
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"For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is."
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"But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?"
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"The first time I watched television I felt exactly as if something important had taken an elevator ride up to my head and gotten off and turned on the light in my mind. I knew that I was going to do something in television. It was in my cards. I remember feeling the warm relief of knowing where my future was."
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"We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group."
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"Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change."
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