Quotes with half-truths

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  • Albert Camus We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • B. W. Powe We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
    Source: Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Madame Chiang Kai-Shek We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
    Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
    Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003)
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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  • Assata Shakur We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
    Source: Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Nick Faldo We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
    Nick Faldo
     
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  • Betty Buckley Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Bill Goldberg What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Pat Riley When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Gracie Allen When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
    Gracie Allen
    American comedian (1895 - 1964)
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  • Edith Wharton When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Jacques Prevert When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
    Jacques Prevert
    French poet and prose st (1900 - 1977)
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  • Eric Hoffer When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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