#tru

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. ↗

— Sophocles

#general #good #good news #impart #merit

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless. ↗

— Sophocles

#gifts #men #saying #true

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. ↗

— Sophocles

#help #how #knowledge #truth

Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#al gore #attention #course #destruction #earth

I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democratic #democratic party #democrats #franklin #franklin roosevelt

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#communicate #destruction #enemy #instead #just

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#difficult #equilibrium #establishing #identity #intellectuals

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#coin #concepts #constructs #equating #explain

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#circumstances #doing #gives #hope #i

Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department. ↗

— Ann Sothern

#department #good #good looks #hollywood #just