Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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Tell the truth.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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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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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune.
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It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.
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The most nervous-making point at the moment is Brazil, ... The international economy rallied around Brazil and hopes very much the Brazilians will be able to fulfill their part of the bargain with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and keep their economy from going under.
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Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
