Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Susan Sontag The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Hermann Hesse The truth is lived, not taught.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Ayn Rand The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Anne Sullivan The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Vance Palmer The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
    Vance Palmer
     
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  • Benjamin Cohen The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.
    Benjamin Cohen
    American economist (1937 - )
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  • Arthur C. Brooks The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Jean-Luc Godard The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Helen Hayes The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • David Mitchell The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn't stimulate; it actually reduces output.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Pasquier Quesnel The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
    Pasquier Quesnel
    French theologian (1634 - 1719)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi The Tunisian people will not bow. We will stay united against terrorism until we wipe out this phenomenon.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Benjamin Rush The turgid style of Johnson, the purple glare of Gibbon, and even the studied and thickset metaphors of Junius are all equally unnatural, and should not be admitted into our company.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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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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  • Jonathan Swift The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Brian Pickrell The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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  • Barry Eisler The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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