Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Quotes
Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
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The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.
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The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.
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Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?
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The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated.
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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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I think our sense as actors of what we've just done - whether or not it be in an audition - is usually really not connected to any truth. I'm always asking for more takes and more goes. I think I just need to shut up and listen.
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You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.
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I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The obvious truth is these impractical, politically motivated programs have irreparably damaged the fabric of our black society and community.
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I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
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I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.
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In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
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I think that people that don't really understand the game of football and are just fans that think people just show up on Saturday and go, I don't think they understand the work that we put in here and what our schemes are and what we're trying to do.
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It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow.
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I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
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Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.
