- Facts
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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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- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.
- Nov 07, 2020
This is my truth, tell me yours.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works for me. I'm not good at doing whatever the other way is - it wouldn't work for me.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
- Nov 07, 2020
A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The work that I feel is most authentically mine is the one that is my first reaction, the first thing that feels like the truth. In aggregate, those choices, those series of decisions, create your point of view, your visual language.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer talented people. It is likely to change the culture of an industry that for nearly a century has been the money center of the world.
- Faulty
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- Nov 07, 2020
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020