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  • Adam C. Engst The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
    Adam C. Engst
     
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  • Casey Stengel The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Michael Ondaatje The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.
    Source: De Engelse patient (2011) 129
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Caskie Stinnett The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
    Source: Out of the Red (1960)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Calvin Harris The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Louis Kronenberger The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Cher The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.
    Cher
    American singer and actress (1946 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Olive Schreiner The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Ralph J. Cudworth The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
    Ralph J. Cudworth
    English clergyman
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry Home The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.
    Henry Home
    British lawyer and writer (1696 - 1782)
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  • Buddy Wakefield The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.
    Source: Poetry
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Ayn Rand The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • David Bowie The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
    David Bowie
    English singer, songwriter and actor (1947 - 2016)
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  • Smiley Blanton The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
    Smiley Blanton
    American psychoanalyst (1882 - 1966)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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