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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script. ↗

— Clive Owen

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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself. ↗

— Julia Roberts

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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made. ↗

— Frank Knight

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In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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