Quotes with true-story

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  • Francis Bacon It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Robert Browning It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Bryant H. McGill It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
    Source: Letter (8 November 1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Archibald Alexander It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Cornelia Otis Skinner It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
    Cornelia Otis Skinner
    American actress and author (1899 - 1979)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Gertrude Stein It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
    Source: Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Agnes Repplier It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barry Ritholtz It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Napoleon Hill It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Cesare Pavese It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Boris Sidis It is not the citizen, or a taxpayer, or voter, or office-holder, but the cultivated, free individual who is the true aim of all social progress.
    Source: The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Italo Calvino It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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