- Nov 07, 2020
Truth Quotes
Truth, examined from a few angles.
This set opens with the idea that a story's meaning ultimately depends on the relationship between reader, writer, and character, before turning to a pointed geopolitical observation about oil and foreign intervention. For more grounded reflections, see Heart.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is we're all searching. We're all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I'm by no means someone to follow.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whatever the pot is. In poker, you may have a certain goal for the day. But the truth is, as soon as you win, more often than not the first thing that comes to mind is: If I'd bet more, I would have won more.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It's imperative in any initiative that is undertaken that punishment be real and that there be truth in sentencing, and that the truly dangerous offenders - the recidivists and the career criminals - be put away and kept away.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
- Break Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a truth universally acknowledged that secrets are toxic and break up families.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020