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Well, everybody does it that way, Huck.""Tom, I am not everybody.

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer

True time is four-dimensional.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threa...

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And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut...

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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seven...

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It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the oppos...

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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of shee...

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Michel FaberThe Book of Strange New Things

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes yo...

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While the seeming independence of the federal judiciary has played a vital part in making its action...

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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embra...

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When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not sa...

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He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his earl...

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It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them." BlancheSomethings you forgive, somethings...

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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them...

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That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him fe...

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Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that i...

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You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Whic...

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A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.

True friends stab you in the front.

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Love is a clash of lightnings

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in soc...

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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

There's always new stuff, that's for sure.

It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.

Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!""You think things have to...

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Knowledge is true opinion.

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

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PlatoThe Trial and Death of Socrates

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and g...

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When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

True love stories never have endings.

Booty Butt, Booty Butt, Booty Butt Cheeks

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagi...

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Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears spe...

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My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a...

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Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my know...

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As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continu...

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I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not ...

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it's a lot easier to be lost than found.

The thing about negotiations, not to mention the manipulation, is you can't go too far in any direct...

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Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately,...

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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Every sin is the result of a colaboration

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Stephen CraneThe Blue Hotel and Other Stories

Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nut...

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... what I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a p...

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Stephen KingDifferent Seasons

For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously li...

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Sometimes life hits with a brick in the head, don't lose hope".-Steve Jobs.

His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too.

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Suzanne CollinsGregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)

It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always '...

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It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with bea...

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So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with bea...

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So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with bea...

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True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true...

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Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way...

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Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is ...

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The opinions of others cannot damage you.

It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at you bravest

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves or rather ...

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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and ca...

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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Virginia WoolfA Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that ...

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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and th...

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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our...

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Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask noth...

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In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great har...

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William Kingdon CliffordThe Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth ...

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