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How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David Thoreau

Whether, Might, Concerning

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wind, Sailing, Favorable

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin

Love, Fear, Live

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
George Carlin

Sure, Looks, Area

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
Robert Frost

Great, Someone, Country

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
Jimi Hendrix

Mean, Happen, Trying

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
Marilyn Monroe

Yourself, Important, Living

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'
Marilyn Monroe

Woman, Feeling, Feelings

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
Elbert Hubbard

Done, Thought, Goal

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
Denis Leary

End, Racism, Son

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.
Will Smith

Work, Working, While

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.
Marilyn Monroe

Friends, Talk, Here

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.
Marilyn Monroe

Yourself, Play, After

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Society, Mind

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus

Oneself, Assert

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.
Summer Altice

Life, Jealousy, Girl

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Trust, Yourself, Live

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
Lao Tzu

Whole, Looking, Less

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
Charlie Sheen

Time, Children, Stupidity

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
Richard Bach

Find, Eyes, Show

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Art, Wish

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris

Beautiful, Nothing, House

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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry

Future, Past, Judging

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.
Eminem

Funny, Rock, Tough

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank

Love, Good, Great

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden

After, Learn, Counts

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
Kelly Clarkson

Love, Family, Good

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
George Bernard Shaw

Live, Dying, Merit

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau

Head, Clouds, Breathe

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