Quotes with true-story

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  • Ben Okri The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Carl Rogers The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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  • Mrs. Humphrey Ward The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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  • Benjamin Cohen The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.
    Benjamin Cohen
    American economist (1937 - )
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  • Alan Cohen The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Coville The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • George Eliot The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Martin Luther King The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Wallace Stevens The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carl Bernstein The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Sheldon Kopp The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
    Sheldon Kopp
    American psychotherapist and author (1929 - 1999)
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  • Bruce Chatwin The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Alfred de Vigny The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Campbell Newman The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Alexander Wiley The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity.
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  • Henry David Thoreau The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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