Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Ben Jonson Truth is the trial of itself
    And needs no other touch,
    And purer than the purest gold,
    Refine it ne'er so much.
    Source: The Touchstone of Truth
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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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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  • Adam Duritz Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Carter G. Woodson Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Joseph Conrad Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • James Russell Lowell Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Samuel Johnson Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Pullman Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
    Bill Pullman
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Boris Johnson Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix, and stay conscious.
    Source: Beth Pearson, Has Howard got news for Boris?, The Herald (Glasgow), 13 November 2004, p. 15.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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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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  • Sir Thomas Beecham Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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  • C. S. Lewis Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
    Source: The Problem of Pain (1940)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Zig Ziglar Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Ann Rule Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Sri Anandamayi Ma Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.
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  • W. Clement Stone Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Billy Beane Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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