"All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it."
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"Christianity is not primarily about lifestyle change; it is about knowing God."
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"The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge."
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"Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds."
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"People are starving for love, not knowing their heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen and refuse to walk around the world begging for love. In your heart is all the love you need. Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world."
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"I've always had this tremendous and very deep feeling of knowing my purpose, you know? It never dawned on me, it always very much known."
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"The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways"
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"Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art."
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"My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it."
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"Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something."
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"I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been."
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"...If there’s a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is.” I shrugged, still watching the sky. ... “I just want to know that he’s there, so that I can die knowing there’s going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end."
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"Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools."
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"One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight."
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"I open my heart, knowing that love guides my every decision. All is well."
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"Taking a step without knowing the end result is the only way we develop faith and not only this, it's a practice that connects us with a power greater than ourselves."
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"I've worked on movies that are being rewritten as you go, but you take so long and so much time doing it, that it's not really an issue knowing what's going to happen or how the movie is going to end."
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