Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Quotes to Explore
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
