“ Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart. ”
- Marilyn Vos Savant- Copy
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“ If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them. ”
- William B. Given Jr.- Copy
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“ A prophet is not a man who tells the future; he is a man who tells the truth. ”
- Harold Kushner- Copy
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“ A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
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“ It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are. ”
- Joyce Carol Oates- Copy
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“ Now, I have not worked out the details, because I don't think it's for me to work out the details. It's for them to work out the details. ”
- George Soros- Copy
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“ I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space. ”
- Christa McAuliffe- Copy
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“ The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. ”
- Robert Wilson- Copy
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“ I should like to tell you again of my bitter troubles so that mutually, by recounting our grief, we can lighten each other's sorrow. ”
- The Kanteletar- Copy
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“ Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. ”
- Paul Tournier- Copy
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“ A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ”
- Heraclitus- Copy
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“ Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. ”
- Leo F. Buscaglia- Copy
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“ Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men. ”
- John Stoltenberg- Copy
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“ The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. ”
- Sextus Propertius- Copy
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“ One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be called mine, I will send you my verses gratis; if you wish them to be called yours, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
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“ I question what purpose is served by additional exposure to the salacious details contained in the Starr report,... We must find a way to proceed and avoid further bombardment of the airwaves and Internet with such material. ”
- Tom Daschle- Copy
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“ The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution. What matters in a world-view is to grasp the meaning and purpose of everything, and that we cannot do. ”
- Albert Schweitzer- Copy
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“ Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Facts can't be recounted, much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. ”
- Augusto Roa Bastos- Copy
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