Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough Quotes
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
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Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
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When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.
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The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.
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Fear is trusting in your own power.
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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.
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There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
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Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.
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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.
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Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
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The greater the truth the greater the libel.
