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“If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake.”

Ifs World Want Done Remember Christ Knowing This World Duty Blessing Sake Consecration

Book:Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

“Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.”

World Remember Knowing Progress Depends Elders Knowing Better

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.”

Thinking Want Children Remember Wealth Knowing Focus Foundation Prosperity My Children Not Knowing Spoil

Author:Bill Gates

“And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn’t ever feel like I’m just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly, it’s good for us all to remember that we don’t need to scheme and plot and beg to get someone to ask us out. We’re fantastic.”

Needs Feels I Can Jobs Remember Guy Asks Waiting Knowing Fantastic Ask Me Plot Schemes Waiting Around

Book:He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.”

Persons Has Beens Past Remember Individual Lost Nations Memories Knowing Conception Denied Not Knowing Deprived Disabled Dealing With It

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in.”

“I remember asking one of the [cyber experts], I said, "Knowing what you know, and you exist behind the curtains so to speak, and you see behind the curtain, do you look at the world differently? Do you feel you have an upper hand?" He just started laughing and said, "Man, people have no idea how exposed they are, how vulnerable, and what's possible."”

People Knows Men World Feels Looks Said Ideas Hands Remember Speak Behinds Laughing Knowing Asking Vulnerable No Idea Experts Exposed Curtains Cyber Upper Hand

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.”

Men Firsts Children Facts Shows Remember Strong Knowing Birth First Time Mere Speed Proof Reincarnation

Book:Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger

Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger

“I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.”

People Bigs Remember Fighting Hours Differences Knowing Democracy Generations Ought Vote Casts Making A Difference Ballots

Author:Ellen Goodman

“When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother's, even remembering how I fought against her, I have to reassess both our relationship as well as the sources of my knowing.”

Wells Remember Mother Speak Knowing Source Mouths Coming Out Our Relationship

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“You must realize first of all that you are the proof of everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence, because his existence must be confirmed by you first. Your being and knowing you owe nobody. Remember, you are entirely on your own. You do not come from somewhere, you do not go anywhere. You are timeless being and awareness.”

Firsts Remember Realizing Existence Knowing Awareness Prove Including Proof Timeless Remember You Remembers You

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.”

Thinking Mind Soul Whole Remember Universe Individual Knowing Conditions Objects Activity Eternal Former Immortal One Time Passive Identical

Book:The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]

Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]

“The thing I get out of it is the connection. I remember going to shows as a kid and meeting eyes with the people in the band, and knowing they are meeting eyes with you, and that moment, that smile, and that's your moment. I want to create millions of little moments for other people.”

People Want Littles Moments Shows Eye Kids Remember Millions Knowing Band Connections Meetings That Moment Your Mom Little Moments

Author:Joan Jett

“The first time I watched television I felt exactly as if something important had taken an elevator ride up to my head and gotten off and turned on the light in my mind. I knew that I was going to do something in television. It was in my cards. I remember feeling the warm relief of knowing where my future was.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Important Feelings Light Remember Felt Knowing Taken Television First Time Warm Cards Relief My Future Elevators

Book:A Big Life in Advertising

Source: A Big Life in Advertising

“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.”

“VOTE!!! Remember what the suffragists said when they finally won their long hard battle to get us the right to vote, knowing that they probably would never get to exercise the right or see the results; they said, 'this is not for ourselves alone.' It was for us and every generation of women to come. If we don't vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future.”

Ifs Giving Long Said Hard Remember Results Knowing Generations Exercise Battle Vote They Said Right To Vote Suffragists

Author:Pat Mitchell

“The president, apparently, was so totally unaware of where his foreign policy was that he had to appoint a distinguished commission to help him locate it, and when the commissioners called him in to testify, he told them, essentially, that he couldn't remember what it looked like. Now, if Richard Nixon had claimed something like that you would at least have had the comfort of knowing he was lying. You could trust Nixon that way. But with this president, you have this nagging feeling that he's telling the truth.”

Ifs Way Helping Feelings Funny Remember Lying President Knowing Policy Comfort Telling The Truth Foreign Policy Distinguished Nagging Commissioners Reaganomics

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“A canteen I remember vividly, and maybe one other thing, I can't remember. And I knew then that he had bought them in an army surplus store that day and he wanted to maybe enhance himself in my eyes, and say, "Well, yes, I have been in the army." Or [he] simply just didn't want to disappoint me. It could have been one or the other. But I knew that he had lied to me. And this filled me with a tremendous sort of anger towards him. At the same time, knowing he was trying to please me, so feeling good about him.”

Want Trying Wells Has Beens I Can Feelings Eye Wanted Remember Knowing Please Army Filled Stores Feel Good Could Have Been Lied Disappoint Surplus Please Me Lied To Me Canteen

Author:Paul Auster

“I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash... knowing I'd remember every word.”

“You can remember it if you want by unraveling the double helix of inner knowing.”

Ifs Want Remember Knowing Unraveling

Book:If Life Is a Game...These Are The Stories: Trur Stories by Real People Around the World About Being Human

Source: If Life Is a Game...These Are The Stories: Trur Stories by Real People Around the World About Being Human

“I remember being really interested in the sad parts of Los Angeles, of which there are many, and knowing we weren't up in the citadel on the hill, but we also weren't on the bottom. I was very interested in the poetry of failure as a child.”

Children Remember Knowing Bottom Hills Los Angeles Being Real Citadels

Author:Mary Harron

“I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.”

Thinking Mind Children Littles Made School Pain Remember Faces Girl Nations Realizing Forget Poor Boys Knowing Doors College Never Forget Mexican

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.”

Way Moments Remember Stuff Knowing Clear Saws Seeing Minutes Ten Computer Obvious Intellect Someday Users Apocalyptic Interfaces User Interface

Author:Steve Jobs

“The good may lose; the bad may win! Remember this! Because knowing this increases the chance of the good to win!”

May Remember Winning Loses Chance Knowing Increase

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.”

Firsts Remember Faces Situation Knowing Endless Despite Streams Not Knowing Setback

Author:Ariel Pink

“It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment, refinement, patience, and reflection. It requires endless curiosity, the relentless pursuit of additional information, the raising of questions, and the search for answers. It necessitates dealing with imperfect information - knowing you will never know everything and that that must not prevent you from acting. It requires a precarious balance between conviction, steadfastness in the face of adversity, and doubt - keeping in mind the possibility that you could be wrong.”

“That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.”

Knows Remember Knowing Sadness Now And Then

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.”

Looks Stills Real Remember Knowing Too Much Honest Viewers Much Love Tainted Knowing Too Much

Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.”

Feels Kind Play Moments Remember Reading Language Accepting Knowing University Brown Not Knowing Worldly Underdog Foreign Language Freshman Wasps Brown University

Author:Stephen Karam

“I remember, in elementary school, being asked what my father does and not knowing how to answer. When I asked my mom what I should say next time, she replied, "Just say he's self-employed." I love that.”

Should Doe Self School Remember Next Father Answers Knowing Mom My Mom Not Knowing Next Time Employed Elementary School

Author:Yoshi Wada

“I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.”

Way Years Play Remember Three Knowing Instruments One Way Three Years Not Knowing Three Year Olds

Author:Frank Fairfield

“I think one of my favorite pieces I've ever done on the show which was about Hezbollah Israel conflict in 2006 and it was very pointed. It was a beautifully crafted piece of satire and it's a weird thing to say but it had a joke in there about 9/11 and I remember the audience sort of laughing but also kind of not knowing how to respond to that joke and it was just so - and I remember the tension after we did this joke on the air and there was this palpable gasp in the audience, but they were also laughing. And I thought oh, wow, that is something that is not being said in the Zeitgeist.”

Thinking Kind Said Done Shows Remember Audience Laughing Knowing Pieces Air Conflict Jokes My Favorite Israel Tension Satire Wow Not Knowing Weird Things Zeitgeist Hezbollah

Author:Aasif Mandvi