Quotes 581 till 600 of 1376.
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It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
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It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
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It takes two to speak truth - one to speak, and another to hear.
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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.
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It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.
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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
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It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.
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Just as those who do not love Plato more than truth cannot pass beyond the threshold of Academe, so those who do not love beauty more than truth never know the inmost shrine of art.
The Decay of Lying (1889) -
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
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Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
Pensees (1669) -
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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Know than this truth (enough for man to know): I virtue alone is happinea below.
Essay on Man -
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Knowledge alone is the being of Nature, Giving a soul to her manifold features, Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness, The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.
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