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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Edward F. Halifax True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Carter G. Woodson Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • William Hamilton Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.
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  • Elvis Presley Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
    Aantekening op zijn bijbel
    Elvis Presley
    American singer, musician, and actor (1935 - 1977)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • William Saroyan Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Bill Copeland Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
    Bill Copeland
    American poet, writer and historian (1946 - 2010)
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  • Alan Watts Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Alan Watts Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Ben Hecht Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Winston Churchill Trying to maintain good relations with a Communist is like wooing a crocodile. You do not know whether to tickle it under the chin or beat it over the head. When it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Bradley Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach Turtle on its back in the desert sea / and you look like a cool drink / just slightly out of reach / Draw myself into the shell / waiting on a sign from God / or a nod from hell
    Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998) Sea Anemone
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Billy Bennett Twas the fifteenth anniversary of her twenty-second year,
    So he smiled at her as sweetly as a hog
    And asked what present she would like. And jestingly she said:
    Your green tie for my little yellow dog.
    The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog line 13
    Billy Bennett
    British comedian
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  • Abraham Polonsky Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?.
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Oscar Wilde Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
    A Woman of No Importance
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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