"Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it."
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"Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down."
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"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."
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"Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything."
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"The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years."
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"As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues."
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"I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have"
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"I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where"
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"A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear."
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"The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans."
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"The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor."
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"Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it."
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"Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere."
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"Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so."
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"We are a way of the universe knowing itself."
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"It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think."
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"For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame."
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"I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die."
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"There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs."
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"I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought."
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