"I like the not knowing of what the next job is."
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"What made you fall in love with a prostitute?” “I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul."
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"A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love."
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"Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering."
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"Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person."
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"Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it."
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"Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers."
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"I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. I don't know why. Is it because we are so unsure, so tentative and waiting? Like it needs that much room, that much space to expand. The not knowing anything really, the hoping, the aching transience: This is not real, not really, and so we let it alone, let it unfold lightly. Those times that can fly."
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"It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone."
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"Any fool can steer a ship, sir. Its just knowing where to take it."
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"He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start."
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"But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power."
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"Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about."
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"Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right."
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"I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him."
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"If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night."
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"With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way."
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"My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are."
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"If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing."
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"I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means."
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