- Observation
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- 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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- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
- Pillars
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
- Fascists
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our feelings of separation from God will diminish as we become more childlike before Him. That is not easy in a world where the opinions of other human beings can have such an effect on our motives. But it will help us recognize this truth: God is close to us and aware of us and never hides from His faithful children.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
- Nov 07, 2020
Exactitude is not truth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020