Quotes with true-story

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  • Bob Ainsworth We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • William James We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Emily Dickinson We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Augustus William Hare We never know the true value of friends. While they live, we are too sensitive of their faults; when we have lost them, we only see their virtues.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Charles Kingsley We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Francis H. Bradley We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Victor Hugo We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Alfred de Vigny We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Thomas Merton We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • James Baldwin We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • William Shakespeare We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mohsin Hamid We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Ben Harper We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Bradley Whitford We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Denis Waitley We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bill Clinton Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bobby Farrelly Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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