- 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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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels so good to tell the truth.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was this fascination with hidden lives, I suspect, that led me to journalism; seeking to uncover the truth about people became a job.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The righting of historic wrongs has chimed with something fundamental in me since I was a young reader. I love the forensic skills, the psychological insights, and the sheer bloody-mindedness of various detectives - professional or accidental - inching toward the truth of a long-buried secret.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a sad truth that apprenticeships fell out of favour in Britain in the Seventies and Eighties, when the manufacturing industries shed jobs and the construction industry went into decline.
- Great Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
- Assert
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
- Celebrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
'In the Making' reveals the truth about 'being in the limelight' as a young celebrity.
- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like when you just say what the truth is, you can't really comment more than that.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020