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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.


Joseph Addison


#know #knowledge #knows #man #nothing

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.


Christopher Alexander


#alive #attained #brings #building #cannot

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.


Christopher Alexander


#embedded #entity #exist #extent #isolated

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.


John R. Allen


#constructive #critical #extent #going #here

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.


Hannah Arendt


#future #human #human way #humanly #making

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.


Fredrik Bajer


#cannot #conferences #congresses #criticism #extent

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.


Todd Barry


#certain #certain extent #comedy #extent #i

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.


Craig Benson


#business #careers #doing #done #extent

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.


Freeman Dyson


#could #expressing #extent #happen #how

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.


Sherwood Boehlert


#economy #efficiency #extent #fuel #fuel economy