“ Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ The war in Iraq itself has not made America safer and has not made the world safer. ”
- Edward Kennedy- Copy
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“ Waiting may seem in the way of us getting to where we want to go. But many times, it is through waiting that the sight of a truer destination appears. ”
- Duke Rohe- Copy
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“ This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. ”
- Michael Korda- Copy
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“ This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come. ”
- Frederick William Robertson- Copy
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“ Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what dead man should have been. ”
- Gustave Vapereau- Copy
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“ Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. ”
- Bishop Robert South- Copy
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“ For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. ”
- Bishop Robert South- Copy
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“ Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labors…then surely it is a braver, a saner and truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men. ”
- Sir Roger Casement- Copy
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“ You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true… ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to "realize" myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have "succeeded," this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is "realizable… ”
- Eugene Ionesco- Copy
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“ The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world… ”
- Preston Bradley- Copy
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“ Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface… but must penetrate inside. My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth… ”
- Paul Klee- Copy
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“ It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us truer and more perfect views than art could possibly make. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality… ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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