Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
Jack Kemp -
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
Oscar Pistorius -
It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
Fabiola Gianotti -
I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
Uma Thurman -
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
Hans Jonas -
Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
Harold Pinter -
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
Bear Grylls -
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.
Saint Bernard -
You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
Kanye West -
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson
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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
Flannery O'Connor -
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
Wendy Kopp -
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
Edmond Halley -
When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.
Indra Nooyi
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The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths, and as the hierarchy of the universe is disclosed to us, we may have to recognize this chilling truth: if there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very important gods.
Arthur C. Clarke -
The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
Yehuda Berg -
I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at the heart of our free-enterprise system.
Kevin Brady -
Radical individualism can be very sad.
Blase J. Cupich -
'..learn to draw: that's where most of you Troyon's pupils are falling down today.. ..draw with all your might; you can never learn to much. However, don’t neglect painting, go to the country from time to time and make studies and above all develop them..' Monet is quoting in his letter Troyon, a friend of Boudin in Paris
Claude Monet -
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
Barbara W. Tuchman