Barry Long Quotes
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
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It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.
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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
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I was not silent, I answered every top journalist in the country from 2002–2007, but noticed there was no exercise to understand truth.
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He used a name for himself, true, but we played at Romance, and this is a game where truth is a bagatelle.
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Ridiculous as may seem the dualities of conflict at a given time, it does not follow that dualism is a worthless process. The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.
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Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.
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Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.
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Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
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I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.
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Ethics in government has always been important to me.
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I think entrepreneurs really appreciate directness and honesty, coupled with empathy.
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Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
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I wasn't cut out for office life, I always wanted to be an actor.
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Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.
