"Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred."
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"People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes."
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"Some of my best sources are ex-policemen, just to get a feeling of what it's like to be one. And it's quite different from being a civilian - except, of course, that I believe that policemen are just special sorts of civilians. Things like how hard it is to hold someone that doesn't want to be held. This is the kind of thing that is worth knowing."
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"What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?"
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"She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying."
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"I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too."
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"Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God."
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"As we live our human lives, let us be like the water. Let us be conscious of the flow. Let us not forget the great ground of being that draws us on through life. Let us live in a knowing hope, aware that all being is in transition, that all movement is back to the source. Let us treat those around us as reminders of our illusionary individuality. We know that they are us and we are them connected in ways we cannot fathom. Let us grow in compassion for all beings, for they share our journey."
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"I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away."
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"All art is knowing when to stop."
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"Sadhyojata means “creating every moment anew, knowing every moment new.’ We are used to a certain dimension, so this may go beyond you."
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"Never gamble without knowing a back way out."
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"Wouldn't that be an amazing super power? Knowing where to press on someone's neck to make them immediately urinate."
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"Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly."
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"O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!"
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"I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life."
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"I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome."
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"But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?"
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"We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made."
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"Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners."
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