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It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.
– Arto Lindsay
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
– Sally Ride
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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
– Henry James Sumner Maine
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It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.
– Talcott Parsons
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It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
– Emma Thompson
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It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.
– Talcott Parsons
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It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
– Marilu Henner
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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
– William Ellery Channing
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
– Carl Friedrich Gauss
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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
– Harriet Martineau
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It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
– Frederick Sanger
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
– Ed Markey
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It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
– Havelock Ellis
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It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
– James Lafferty
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It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
– Paul Nurse
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Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
– Paul Davies
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Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
– Corliss Lamont
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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
– Rebecca West
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Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
– Polykarp Kusch
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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
– Humphry Davy
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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
– A. N. Wilson
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In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.
– David Icke
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In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
– Jean Piaget
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In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry and where a man possesses these, although the bis.
– John Wycliffe
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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
– Gertrude Jekyll
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
– Alfred North Whitehead
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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
– George Mikes
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In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.
– Janet Jackson
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In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
– Janet Jackson
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In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
– James H. Breasted
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
– Nathaniel Branden
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In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks we now need to support the providers.
– Jose Serrano
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
– George Bernard Shaw
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Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
– Jane Porter
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
– Terry Eagleton
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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
– Jimmy Wales
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
– Marcel Proust
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If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.
– Polykarp Kusch
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If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
– Mickey Spillane
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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
– Barbara McClintock
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
– Ramakrishna
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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
– Felix Adler
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If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
– Jean-Francois Lyotard
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If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.
– Sigmar Gabriel
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If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
– Brad Sherman
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If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources.
– Matthew Simpson
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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
– Fran Drescher
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
– Frances Wright
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If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
– John Boyd Orr
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
– Karel Capek
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If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
– Thomas Bulfinch
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If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
– Xun Zi
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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
– Kofi Annan
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
– Oswald Chambers
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If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.
– Daniel Radcliffe
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If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
– Peter Fonda
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If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.
– Herschel Walker
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If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.
– Leon Spinks
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I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.
– Felix Baumgartner
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
– Eddie Redmayne
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I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.
– Jennie Garth
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I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.
– Shaquille O'Neal
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I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.
– Shannon Miller
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I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.
– Jay-Z
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I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
– Will Smith
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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
– Barry White
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I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.
– Fred Savage
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I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.
– Nicholas Brendon
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I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.
– George McGovern
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I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
– Tom Clancy
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
– Thomas Jefferson
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I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.
– Laurent Lamothe
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I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.
– Ellie Goulding
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I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.
– Todd Barry
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
– Zooey Deschanel
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I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.
– Joe Wright
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I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.
– Marvin Minsky
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I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.
– Rex Hunt
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I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
– Jimmy Wales
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I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
– Thomas Malthus
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I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
– Steve Sabol
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I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.
– Charlie Sheen
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I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.
– Will Estes
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I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.
– Geoff Hoon
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I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.
– Chris Tucker
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I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.
– Charles Stanley
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I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.
– Jessica Simpson
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I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!
– Hal Sparks
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I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
– Talib Kweli
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I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.
– Busy Philipps
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I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.
– Joe Mantegna
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I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.
– Dusty Baker
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I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
– Giacomo Casanova
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
– Yoshihiko Noda
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I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
– Anne Sullivan Macy
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I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.
– Alonzo Mourning
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I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
– Jimmy Wales
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I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
– Alan Dundes
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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
– Immanuel Kant
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