Quotes with truth-and-a-half

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  • Anita Roddick If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Emily Dickinson If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Albert Einstein If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Jonathan Swift If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Joseph Addison If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Carl Sandburg If she [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
    On America, in Remembrance Rock (1948)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • William Jennings Bryan If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • George Washington If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Ben Klassen If there is one thing in this wonderful world of ours that is worth preserving, defending, and promoting, it is the White Race.
    Natures Eternal Religion Natures Eternal Religion (1973), Ch. 2
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  • Lawana Blackwell If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Kofi Annan If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Carl Sagan If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
    Ann Druyan (2011) 354
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Joseph Addison If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joseph Addison If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Robert Montgomery If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • Virginia Woolf If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Abbie Hoffman If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Sun Tzu If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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