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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I believe that modern slavery is the most outrageous assault on the rights of an individual. It is something that touches me deeply because I grew up in rural Brazil and could see first-hand how poverty forced people to work in harsh, exploitative conditions.
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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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Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.
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No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
