Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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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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I don't care about losses anymore.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?
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We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.
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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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On her fallout with Abhishek Bachchan The truth is if someone chooses not to invite you to their wedding you realize where you stand with that person. You may be deluded and think you are friends but maybe that friendship was only extended as co-stars on the sets. It doesn't matter. It became very clear to me that we were only co-stars not friends.
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I fantasize that our politicians have been moved by the dialogues of Plato, and thus contemplate the ancient conflict of the sophists versus the lovers of truth.
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I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having your hand stamped so that you don't have to come back but you can come back.
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As the leader of Southeast Asia's oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we have found that steady reform is the best way to secure lasting stability. It is a process that continues in Malaysia to this day.
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What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.
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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
