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There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.
Charles Kennedy
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I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.
Kim Cattrall
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.
Linda Chavez
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The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.
George A. Moore
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.


Georges Bataille
Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and homemaking.
Dennis Prager
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Ambrose Bierce
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Ralph Ellison
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
Harold Feinstein
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
B. F. Skinner
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Of course I live in my time, and I'm really curious. But, at the same time, I don't think it has a direct impact on my work.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
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However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
Charles Spurgeon
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Well, it gives me the opportunity to make the movies that I want to do, because L'Oreal pays me very well. Also it means that I can work with great directors. My last commercial was directed by Erick Zonca, who made 'Dream Life of Angels.' And finally, it doesn't take up a lot of my time.
Virginie LeDoyen
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Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda
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Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!
Neale Donald Walsch
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I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.
Meg Whitman
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Andrew Carnegie
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I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.
Billy Koch
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