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A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
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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.
miriam makeba— As quoted in Poet, J. (11 February 2009)
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.
cesare pavese— The moon and the bonfire, Chapter I, p. 9
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.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
Albert Einstein— From E. Salaman, "A Talk With Einstein," The Listener, 54 (1955, pp. 370-371)
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach— Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977).
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein— Albert Einstein
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
walt disney
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)
jesus christ— 9:55–56 Rebuking James and John for asking if he would command fire to come down from heaven, to consume a village of Samaritans for not receiving them, because they seemed to be headed for Jerusalem.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
a. a. milne— Generally attributed to Eeyore, a character created by A. A. Milne.
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
ausonius
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa— Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin— Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), Poor Richard's Almanac[ ]
If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.
robert a. heinlein— The Door Into Summer, Chapter 1 (1957)
I do not like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln— As quoted in Costs of Administering Reparation for Work Injuries in Illinois by Alfred Fletcher Conard (1952, pg. 28).
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.
michelle obama
There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.
voltaire— Voltaire, Letter (1739).
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
george burns— Quoted in Antony Jay, Lend Me Your Ears: The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations. Oxford University Press, (p.49-50).
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
Richard Brautigan— Page 38
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.
Robert Rauschenberg— Robert Rauschenberg talks…., Maxime de la Falaise McKendry, Interview, 6, May 1976, p. 34
Now I don't know where you come from if you think that you deserve a trophy, or a parade or are even guaranteed a thank-you for doing what's good and what's right to others, and being kind to them and respectful — but in life, you probably will not get these things. But that's not why we ought to do good — we ought to do good, not because it's special or extra, but because it's the minimum of what we owe to one another.
ysabella brave— YouTube video
I know a thing or two about pain and darkness.
Twenty One Pilots— "Lane Boy" (2015)
Doubt is useful, it keeps faith a living thing. After all, you cannot know the strength of your faith until it has been tested .
— David Magee, in Life of Pi (2012), based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel.
