#truths

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. ↗

— George Lloyd

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Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ↗

— William Nicholson

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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour. ↗

— Gary Oldman

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No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld. ↗

— Rod Parsley

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Official truths are often powerful illusions. ↗

— John Pilger

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When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today. ↗

— Jacques Prevert

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It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times. ↗

— Thomas Reed

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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. ↗

— Julius Charles Hare

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Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy. ↗

— Tom Hayden

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