“And I don't pretend to know what you know
no no
now please don't pretend to know what's on my mind
if we already knew everything that everybody knows
we would have nothing to learn tonight
and we would have nothing to show tonight
oh but everybody thinks
that everybody knows
about everybody else
nobody knows
anything about themselves
cause they're all worried about everybody else.”

Wasting Time.
Song lyrics, On and On (2003)

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Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“Romantic love interests almost everybody, because almost everybody knows something about it, or would like to know.”

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat

Preface <br class="br"> The Ruling Passion http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/rlpsn10.txt (1901)

“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.
I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.
Nobody would know it.
It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking.
Everybody knows that the captain lied...
And everybody knows that you're in trouble...
Everybody knows it's coming apart.
Take one last look...Before it blows.
Everybody knows”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"Everybody Knows" Leonard Cohen and collaborator Sharon Robinson.
I'm Your Man (1988)

“If we expanded Medicaid [to] everybody. Give everybody a Medicaid card—we would be spending such an astronomical sum of money that, you know, we would bankrupt the nation.”

Bernie Sanders (1941) American politician, senator for Vermont

Speaking in 1987, from Medicaid for All Would 'Bankrupt the Nation,' Warns Bernie Sanders—In 1987 http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/14/bernie-sanders-medicaid-for-all-bankrupt by Peter Suderman, Reason.com (14 September 2017) <br class="br">1980s

“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest