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MARK TWAIN There is window of opportunity. Whether we, I mean all of us, use it or not, well it's another quest...
ANDREI DENISOV Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
PATRICK NESS But that’s the nature of money. Whether you have it or not, whether you want it or not, whether yo...
PHIL KNIGHT All of God’s perfect knowledge about money is our precious inheritance
SUNDAY ADELAJA Alan Bennett is a starmaker; he's the Simon Cowell of the theatre world! He's a beautiful, b...
RUSSELL TOVEY Whether it’s a real person or not, is irrelevant, ... The human condition is the same.
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ABDUS SALAM Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact scienc...
AMELIA BARR Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact scienc...
AMELIA E. BARR The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the...
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BRADLEY HOROWITZ Reclamation is our new thing that we are trying to encourage more and more so we can put a second us...
DAN GALLAGHER Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY This problem exists whether you use WEP or not, but it is trivial to exploit if not using WEP,
WILLIAM ARBAUGH It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
SENECA It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Whether it’s a real person or not, is irrelevant, ... The human condition is the same.
CHARLIZE THERON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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SERGEI EISENSTEIN All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses...
ERICH FROMM We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, w...
STELLA YOUNG Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is...
MEDARD BOSS It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confrontin...
NANCY A. COLLINS All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or fa...
AMY WINEHOUSE The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a ...
N. W. DOUGHERTY It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scienti...
HARRIET MARTINEAU It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scienti...
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MICHAEL GOVE All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of co...
RICHARD VON WEIZSAECKER We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
H.L. MENCKEN We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
H. L. MENCKEN We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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JOAN SUTHERLAND Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, crue...
CéSAR CHáVEZ Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l...
DEYTH BANGER The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, wh...
RALPH ELLISON They can use these skills for anything, whether they farm or not.
AMANDA COOPER Ignorance is the lack of knowledge, stupidity is having the knowledge but refusing to use it
SYNECA DE JORMUNGAND very specifically is not about a patient who is only concerned about being told she is obese. ... Wh...
RICHARD HEAD And every human being is precious.
DESMOND TUTU Your intelligence is not being judged on what kind of knowledge you have, it is actually based on th...
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ALAN BLINDER Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional". <...
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PIERRE CURIE Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
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MARTIN O'MALLEY He has not made even the slightest inquiry,
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MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Whether or not you respect gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender individuals, we can all agree that ha...
CHRIS FISHER The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a...
IMMANUEL KANT Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a...
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ANNE RICE It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
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The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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HAVELOCK ELLIS If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, ...
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AUDRE LORDE When I use my strength in the service of may vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afrai...
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STEPHEN KING The river of knowledge has no depth.
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AMY JO MARTIN The sum of human knowledge is not contained in any one language.
UNKNOWN Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
ELBERT HUBBARD The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is kn...
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JON HUNTSMAN, JR. It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN If you have knowledge, then use it for educating not for degrading.
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AYN RAND All alone!Whether you like it or not,alone is something you'll be quite a lot
DR. SEUSS All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!
DR. SEUSS Knowledge, like money and muck (manure), serves us best when spread evenly.
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BO BENNETT When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.
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BO BENNETT An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
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ARNOLD BENNETT I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
TONY BENNETT All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
ARNOLD BENNETT Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The g...
ARNOLD BENNETT Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret func...
ARNOLD BENNETT The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
ARNOLD BENNETT It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a...
ARNOLD BENNETT Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
ARNOLD BENNETT Avoiding the phrase
BO BENNETT A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
BO BENNETT There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blam...
ARNOLD BENNETT While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happines...
BO BENNETT To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...
ARNOLD BENNETT It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
JESSE BENNETT Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of avera...
ARNOLD BENNETT Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
BO BENNETT Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town,...
HENRY BENNETT