#be true

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. ↗

— Richard Bach

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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. ↗

— Alain Badiou

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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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I wanted to write what I remembered to be true. ↗

— Judy Blume

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It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

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In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

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Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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