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We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Truth
Knowledge
Memory
Consider
Our
Relative
Distorted
Only
Never
Never Stop
Always
Going
Stop
Stored
Beliefs
To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
Don Rickles
Knowledge
First
Later
Guy
Comedians
Doing
Trying
Different
Then
Really
Started
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
Donna Shalala
Knowledge
You
People
Genius
College
Meet
Latest
Backgrounds
System
Only
Simply
Also
Go
American
Different
Different Backgrounds
Europeans
Compared
Elite
Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.
Dorothea Dix
Knowledge
Men
Master
Passions
Order
Prejudices
Need
Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
Dorothea Dix
Knowledge
Fly
Pleasures
Wings
Remains
Take
True
True Knowledge
Forever
Themselves
Away
While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.
Dorothy Denning
Knowledge
Cause
Tools
Severe
Systems
Economic
Attack
Computer
Hackers
Generally
Motivation
Lack
While
Social
Skills
Many
Violence
Harm
I've long been an admirer of Philip French's way of writing as well as his knowledge of films. He was one of the few critics to be aware, and make audiences aware, of the work of people on a film set other than the director.
Douglas Slocombe
Work
Knowledge
Director
People
Writing
Long
Few
Films
Other
Philip
Way
Critics
Admirer
He
French
Well
Make
Audiences
Been
His
Than
Film
Aware
Film Set
Set
I went through ups and downs in this business and in life, and when I was released by WWE in 2014, I knew I had a wealth of knowledge and an opportunity.
Drew McIntyre
Life
Knowledge
Business
Wealth
Opportunity
Ups And Downs
Released
Through
Had
Knew
WWE
Ups
Downs
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
Love
Strength
Knowledge
Consistency
Others
Approach
Systematic
Mental
More
Sharing
Learn
Accuracy
Hitting
Coaches
Baseball
Now
Levels
Players
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
Death
Knowledge
Smoking
Cause
Nation
Cigarettes
Considered
Preventable
Fires
Leading
Leading Cause
Also
Known
Causes
Common
Common Knowledge
Less
Widely
Fatal
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
Fashion
Knowledge
Musicians
World
First
Met
Christopher
Tricky
About
Only
Featured
Through
Bailey
Sportsmen
Campaign
Did
Quite
Artists
Ignorant
Whom
Actor
I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
Edgar Wright
Knowledge
Old
Films
Always
Am
Trying
Gaps
Fill
Watching
'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
Edgar Wright
Time
Knowledge
Teenager
Driver
Had
Commercially
Successful
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Edith Hamilton
Day
Great
Knowledge
Quality
People
Reconstruction
Writings
Real
Textbook
Historical
Real Knowledge
Literature
Them
Show
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
Edmund Phelps
Knowledge
Change
Better
Simple
Economics
Predict
Consequences
Our
Cases
Examples
Simplest
Global
Global Warming
Climate
Climate Change
Which
Warming
Us
Full
Show
Less
Actions
Level
In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
Edmund Phelps
Knowledge
Systems
Uncertainty
Generate
Economies
Owing
Essence
May
Process
Which
Much
Capitalist
Mechanism
Growth
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.
Edward Forbes
Time
Knowledge
Space
Organic
Our
Definite
Moreover
Remains
Well
Geographical
Geological
Repeated
Existence
Centralization
Us
Teaches
Species
The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.
Edward Levi
Knowledge
Learning
Unity
Broad
Minds
Alive
Introduction
About
Along
Accessibility
Questions
Fields
Many
Keeps
Spectrum
No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign countries. But we need to think about where to draw the line on these kind of operations so we're not always attacking our allies, the people we trust, the people we need to rely on, and to have them in turn rely on us.
Edward Snowden
Knowledge
Trust
People
Think
Our
States
Draw
Independent
Kind
Would
About
Rely
Allies
Attacking
Argue
No-One
Countries
Operations
Always
Foreign
Foreign Countries
Line
Intentions
Where
Interest
Them
Turn
Us
Plans
United
United States
Need
The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
Edward Tufte
Work
Time
Knowledge
Long
Long Time
Guided
Idea
Forever
Trying
Create
Now
Things
Last
A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Our decision-making is better when we draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group.
Edwin Catmull
Knowledge
Creative
Culture
People
Better
Collective
Free
Healthy
Group
Our
Draw
Criticisms
Share
Feel
Ideas
Hallmark
Opinions
Decision-Making
I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe, but I'm motivated by love for my country and the knowledge that I don't have another country.
Eli Yishai
Love
Knowledge
Man
Country
Like
Another
Sound
Motivated
If you're innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world, and you want to succeed. People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey.
Elijah Wood
Knowledge
You
People
World
Innocent
Will
See
Parasitic
Prey
Very
Want
Little
Succeed
Interests
I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.
Elizabeth Kenny
Work
Best
Health
Strength
Me
Knowledge
People
Valuable
Will
Men
Tell
Rapidly
Restoring
New
Know
Because
How
New Knowledge
Discuss
Where
Want
Whether
Them
Medical
Applied
Needed
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
Ella Maillart
Life
Knowledge
Big
Feared
Direct
Towns
Conditioning
Gained
Poor
Mechanism
Lived
It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment every technical person fears - the fall into knowledge exhaustion, obsolescence, techno-fuddy-duddyism - there was no reason to think I could escape it forever.
Ellen Ullman
Me
Knowledge
Fears
Edge
Fall
Lose
Every
Think
Later
Sight
Would
No Reason
Sometime
Could
Had
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Obsolescence
Exhaustion
Escape
Forever
Person
Happen
Cutting
Cutting Edge
Reason
Moment
Technical
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