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True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to aband...

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Whatever you are physically ... male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy -- all those things m...

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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one ar...

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There's too much coldness in the world," I told her. "If people would only talk things out together ...

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the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is f...

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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. ...

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I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.

They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is ...

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He imagined a town called A. Around the communal fire they’re shaping arrowheads and carving tribute...

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Colson WhiteheadApex Hides the Hurt

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

While some consider God's standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freein...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cann...

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By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and ...

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can u...

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My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

I love traveling all over the world but it's true: there's nothing like home.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.

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Dr. SeussWacky Wednesday

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing ...

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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portio...

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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and w...

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The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasolin...

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...

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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. Th...

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to...

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Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, wi...

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Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance ...

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C'mon, Amory. Your romance is overYou don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole troubl...

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To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is...

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There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Ju...

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Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you ...

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He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can...

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True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have seen.

True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but ...

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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song but your true love is the one you make a li...

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You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rath...

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Posterity will never hear of you. You will be lifted clean out from the stream of history. We shall ...

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No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.

A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a ...

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A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, th...

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Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to ...

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Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And ...

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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not c...

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have...

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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the asser...

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How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is fr...

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Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, s...

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Hannah ArendtCrises of the Republic: Lying in Politics

How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood's editorial. Senseless killing--Tom had be...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says,...

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud

Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one bra...

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Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."]

The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity�love. And the story of a love is not importan...

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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpo...

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Why do we put our self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote fr...

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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to someth...

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When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, ...

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At some point they show their true colorsAfter the break upAfter the trial After the contract is sig...

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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Rayna found a makeover show on TV-one of those where they sneak up on unsuspecting people going abou...

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Then you don't know. You can't know what it feels like to meet a person and suddenly know without a ...

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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

True love is eternal infinite and always like itself. It is equal and pure without violent demons...

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.