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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.
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Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
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Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
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More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
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Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
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Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths.
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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