Harry S Truman Quotes
If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.
Quotes to Explore
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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I find the business world hard.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
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I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
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There's not one day that goes by that I'm not listening to one of my songs or in rehearsal for one of my songs or dancing to one of my songs.
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I only cook when I'm in love.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
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Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.
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Mere negations give all advantage to superstition; error seems wisdom and wealth when truth is silent.
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But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
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If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.
