"Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready."
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"Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going."
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"There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful."
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"Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live."
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"Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing."
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"God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were."
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"When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement."
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"As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered."
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"I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling."
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"We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen. Nothing did. “This isn’t good,” Quen said. I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical."
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"She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
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"We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing."
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"I’ve watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies both cunning and cruel. Knowing you possess the power to defeat most of them doesn’t threaten me, luv. It relieves me to my very core."
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"....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it."
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"I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience."
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"There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day."
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"There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered."
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"Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be."
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"A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty."
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"Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull."
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