William Pepperell Montague Quotes
To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.
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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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Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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The European girls, like the Russians, tend to stick together, but there's never any rivalry. Sometimes there's a little bit of tension with the older girls because they might feel a little threatened by the younger models, but it's not between personalities.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
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We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.
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In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.
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There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see something different in the second time around.
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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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Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.
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I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
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When I look down the range at the target all I can do is try to distinguish between the different colors.
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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.
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In our lives, Michelle and I have been strengthened by our Christian faith. But there have been times where my faith has been questioned – by people who don't know me – or they've said that I adhere to a different religion, as if that were somehow a bad thing.
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It's really no different for me 'cause I work for BET so it's like the writers are always on strike.
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All those events in history were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
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She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.
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Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.
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In the education of the American people, I am Recess.
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We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.
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To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.
