Quotes with true-story

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  • Demosthenes A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • John Milton A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Charlie Chaplin A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Thomas Jefferson A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Aaron Sorkin A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Lorrie Moore A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ben Katchor A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Lorrie Moore A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
    Source: Faceboek (2012)
    Lorrie Moore
    American fiction writer (1957 - )
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  • George Washington A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Bill McCollum A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
    Bill McCollum
    American lawyer and politician (1944 - )
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  • Cameron Sinclair A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Doug Larson A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Len Wein A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else.
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  • Bernard Meltzer A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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