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  • Brian Tracy Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
    Source: Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Carter Burwell New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • M. Scott Peck Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
    M. Scott Peck
    American psychiatrist and author (1936 - 2005)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bruce Babbitt No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Phillips Brooks No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Samuel Johnson No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Emma Goldman No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Assata Shakur No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Phillips Brooks No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Henry Giles No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • David Jenkins No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.
    David Jenkins
     
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  • George Eliot No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Shirley Williams No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • Bill Clinton No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.
    Source: Detroit Economic Club, August 21, 1992
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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