#han

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#british government #come #decision #distressing #ever

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#door #library #me #more #nothing

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. ↗

— Lana Turner

#find #his #makes #man #money

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

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Thank god my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

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I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others. ↗

— Edward Tufte

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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. ↗

— John Tukey

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An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. ↗

— John Tukey

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