Eugene V. Debs Quotes
The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.
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I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
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I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
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Songwriters tell the truth.
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To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'
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When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.
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Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.
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If we have truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not truth, it ought to be harmed.'
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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used 'to tell' at all.
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The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.
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We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.
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The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.
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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
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From another side: is Achilles possible with powder and lead? Or the Iliad with the printing press, not to mention the printing machine? Do not the song and saga of the muse necessarily come to an end with the printer's bar, hence do not the necessary conditions of epic poetry vanish?
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The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.
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The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.
