- 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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- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.
- Government Spending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.
- Bitter Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not my responsibility to determine whether Mr. Kavanaugh deserves to sit on the Supreme Court. My responsibility is to tell the truth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so deeply disturbing to me that half of the eligible voters don't vote in this country. We talk about how divided the country is. The truth is, we don't even know. We just know what the half that voted thought.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all see color. We do. And anyone who says he doesn't see color is confused or isn't telling the truth. Except... and I know how this sounds, but I can't remember any point in my life where I saw other people and thought of their color.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020