Quotes with true-story

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  • Leo Tolstoy True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Ban Ki-moon True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • William Penn True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Stephen King True sorrow is as rare as true love.
    Source: Carrie (1974)
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Bruce Lee True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.
    Source: Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bruce Lee True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.
    Source: Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Socrates True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Akhenaton True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Alexander Pope True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Abigail Van Buren True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Bayard Taylor True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Santayana Truth is a dream, unless my dream is true.
    Source: Sonnet V
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War Is Merely the Continuation of Policy by Other Means
    We see, therefore, that war is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse carried on with other means. What remains peculiar to war is simply the peculiar nature of its means.
    Source: On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 24, in the Princeton University Pre
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Aldous Huxley War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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