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- You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.
You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all. - Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column #72
- Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
- Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
- Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LIV
- Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), "The Root of All Evil", Channel 4 UK, 2006
- I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
- May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
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