Quotes with true-story

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  • Lorrie Moore To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
    (2011)
    Lorrie Moore
    American fiction writer (1957 - )
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  • Richard P. Feynman Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Barack Obama Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
    Speech Chicago 04-11-2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
    Leviathan (1651)
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Albert Einstein True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Auguste Rodin True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alan Cohen True champions are team players.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Buddha True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Charles Baudelaire True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Jeremy Collier True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Lord Shaftesbury True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Arthur Koestler True creativity often starts where language ends.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Philip Massinger True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
    Philip Massinger
    English dramatist (1583 - 1640)
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  • Alexander Pope True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bryant H. McGill True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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