We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.
And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
God is best known in not knowing him.
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?
But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.
Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?
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