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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell / Economist
Funny
Knowledge
Ignorance
Laughter
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Just
Own
Considerable
Extent
Realize
Takes
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt / 26Th U.s. President
Peace
Strength
Hitting
Squash
Thorough Knowledge
Avoid
Hit
Possible
Honorably
Soft
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A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership
Aron Nimzowitsch / Chess Master
Elements
Half
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Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
Leonardo Da Vinci / Painter
Drawing
Eye
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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Motivation
Thorough
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Today
Fairly
Period
Motivations
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It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.
John Quincy Adams / 6Th U.s. President
Inspirational Life
Past
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Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Quality
Color
Special
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I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
Helen Keller / Author
Men
Mean
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
John Locke / Philosopher
Gentleman
Hands
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An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.
Seth Grahame-Smith / Author
Europe
Fighting
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By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and I began to write poems in honour of a lady of thirty years. Naturally, she knew nothing about them.
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont / Novelist
Thorough Knowledge
Writing
Years
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One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
Leonardo Da Vinci / Painter
Hate
Spring
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Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.
Chogyam Trungpa / Teacher
Real
Shy
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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
Jane Austen / Novelist
Fiction Novels
Mind
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Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their own. Such sincerely held beliefs, peer pressures, and the harsh demands that the work itself places on time and energy all tend to discourage such people from acquiring a similarly thorough knowledge of alternative policies and the need to discuss them.
Amory Lovins / Physicist
Technology
People
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There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least likely to resort to oppressive expedients, or sacrifice any particular class of citizens to the procurement of revenue. It might be demonstrated that the most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.
Alexander Hamilton / Founding Father Of The United States
Men
Sacrifice
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