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When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Yet ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.

Why fear death? Just because you know the song will end, is that any reason not to listen?

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

That you need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. Your own village means that you're not alone, that you know there's something of you in the people and the plants and the soil, that even when you are not there it waits to welcome you.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. (KJV)

I do not like that man. I must get to know him better.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don’t read much... Probably the only reason I’m a painter is because I couldn’t read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I’m writing, but when I’m reading I can’t see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that’s very good for printmaking.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

Doubt is useful, it keeps faith a living thing. After all, you cannot know the strength of your faith until it has been tested .

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird; And all a wonder and a wild desire, Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue, And sang a kindred soul out to his face, Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart; When the first summons from the darkling earth Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue, And bared them of the glory to drop down, To toil for man, to suffer or to die, This is the same voice: can thy soul know change? Hail then, and hearken from the realms of help!

Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.