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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

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I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did. ↗

— Sunil Gangopadhyay

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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. ↗

— Ring Lardner

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For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power. ↗

— Max von Laue

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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

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