"It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others."
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"And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits."
"I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers."
"Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known."
"It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself."
"In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks."
"It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds."
"It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others."
"Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us."
"Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation."
"A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine."
"I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what ...." And I'd say, "I know. I read the script. I'm the one who cast you as the director. Let me show you and you'll correct me if I'm wrong.""
"My favorite, and I repeat it often while swimming is from a well known coach around here"
"I never had any desire to become a well-known actress."
"On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown."
"He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential."
"The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am."
"It's well known there's always two sides, if no more."
"It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium."
"But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish."
"It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war."