Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
Carlene Carter
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Walt Alston
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
Cam Newton
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
Sally Kirkland
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
Rachel Platten
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
Carl Sandburg
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The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
Benito Mussolini
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.
Marcel Proust
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
Rita Mae Brown
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A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Maurice Maeterlinck