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  • Alan Clark There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
    Alan Clark
    British politician, author and diarist (0 - 1999)
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  • Bryan White There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Niels Bohr There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Niels Bohr There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Charles Kingsley There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Henry van Dyke There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Bill Cosby There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Bill James There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Samuel Huntington There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are.
    Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Annie Dillard There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • A. J. Liebling There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously. It is the story you must take that way.... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Paramahansa Yogananda There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
    Paramahansa Yogananda
    Indian Hindu monk, yogi and teacher (1893 - 1952)
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  • Henry Fielding There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is not true at all. But I can be as happy as a king if all of you know what is right and what is wrong and cooperate to fix things.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Ben Carson There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Camille Paglia There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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