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"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."
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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
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"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."
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"Sometimes dead is better."
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"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."
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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
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"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."
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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
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"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
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"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult."
Writing
"If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it."
Education
"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."
Truth
"It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish."
Humor
"Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour."
Life
"We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor."
Humor
"In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies."
Wisdom
"It may be those who do most, dream most."
Inspirational
"Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect."
Trust
"What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years."
Creativity
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