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  • Anthony Trollope The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Billy Crudup The truth is I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act. I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell instead of putting it on our backs.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Boris Johnson The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and although I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Anne Cassidy The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.
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  • Frederick Frieseke The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.
    Frederick Frieseke
    American-born French painter (1874 - 1939)
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  • Sophia Loren The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
    Sophia Loren
    Italian actress (1934 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bob Seger The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch would love for us to fight each other over the resources they have made scarce.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Bill Gross The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Oscar Wilde The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Italo Calvino The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Carl Sagan The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and - so the argument goes - that's that.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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