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See also Core English Vocabulary (K) List :: Top 1,000 UK English Words (#2) List :: Top 3,000 American English Words (#06) List-
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato
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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in ...
Joseph Roux
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly...
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas
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From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
Leon Jaworski
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It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one`s cleverness
Janet Watson
Subject: Cleverness QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it
Jacob Chanowski
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal
Subject: Religion QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal
Subject: Religion QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
Charles de Lint
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Bill Lovejoy
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn`t know.
Bill Lovejoy
Subject: Celebrities QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga.
Bhagavad Gita
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A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends
Arabian Proverb
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
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Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek
Tom Robbins
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Victory is sweetest when you`ve known defeat.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Source: thinkexist.com
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Lord Byron
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.
Ambrose Bierce
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Dr. Carl Sagan
Source: thinkexist.com
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Fame will go by and, so long, I`ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I`ve always known it was fickle. So at least it`s something I experience, but that`s not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck
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If there is not the war, you don`t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don`t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known
Charles Dickens
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
