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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands. ↗

— George Borrow

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Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not. ↗

— Albert Brooks

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In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

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I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

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We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker. ↗

— Sophia Bush

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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people. ↗

— Robert Duvall

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I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

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