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• I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Commitment, Roles, May

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• I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Country, Brother, Son

  Inauguration speech of His Excellency Benigno Aquino III, President of the Philippines, at Quirino Grandstand in Manila (translated from Filipino), newsinfo.inquirer.net. June 30, 2010.

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• What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

  Alan Cohen

  Heart, Desire, Too Good To Be True

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• We . . . can become more diligent and concerned at home by bearing testimony to those whom we love about the things we know to be true by the witness of the Holy Ghost. . . . Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration.

  David A. Bednar

  Wall, Father, Home

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• There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Half, May, Morality

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• Admittedly, repentance is not always easy; I suppose it would not be true repentance if it were. It can also take a longer time than we think or hope. There can be missteps along the way, when we falter or lose heart, but we can reset our course and move forward again, even if it is only one small step at a time. As well as praying for forgiveness, we can also plead for courage, and it will come. If we do so, steady but surely, we will rise from the miry depths of sin and emerge into the sunny uplands of forgiveness and hope.

  David S. Baxter

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

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• It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.

  Leigh Hunt

  Giving, House, Everyday

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• Good profiles mentioned characteristics that would probably be true for all of us, such as: "I want someone who will make me laugh." About Me sections with fewer than a hundred words tend to be clearly popular. Short profiles that express just enough information to pique someone's interest work best.

  Amy Webb

  Laughing, Pique, Want

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• I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Fighting, Thinking

  "Scalia Defends Keeping God, Religion in Public Square" by Valerie Richardson, www.washingtontimes.com. October 01, 2014.

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• We need to care about reality more than we care about what we want to be true about it.

  Greta Christina

  Reality, Care, Want

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• They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

  G. H. Hardy

  Imagination, Ramanujan, Ifs

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• It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Wife, Impossible

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

  George Washington

  Unions, West, East

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• Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Men, Saint

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• Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.

  Leonard Read

  Police, Tools, Coercion

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• What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.

  Steven Pinker

  Purpose, May, Today

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.295, Penguin

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• All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

  James Cook

  Father, Government, Should Have

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• Check the records; there has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you'll find this to be true.

  Zig Ziglar

  Champion, Records, Fields

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Stories, May, Individual

  "Don't Blink! The Hazards of Confidence". www.nytimes.com. October 19, 2011.

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• They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

  Gloria Steinem

  War, Men, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think it took me a little while to be true to myself as a designer, and in some ways I'm still trying to do that. I have to choose things that come naturally to me. Whenever I challenge something too much or try too hard, it never quite works out.

  Stella McCartney

  Thinking, Work Out, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you'd like, as a person, but figuring out ways that you can bring specific emotions at specific times and have them be true, and relating to someone as someone that they're not, is a lot.

  Zoe Bell

  Art, Emotional, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like a joke, in case He is in charge.

  Dan Harmon

  Mean, Sound, May

  "Dan Harmon Talks RICK AND MORTY, Working for Adult Swim, Animation vs Live-Action, COMMUNITY, and Much More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 27, 2013.

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• I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.

  Jenji Kohan

  Lying, Real, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Where you have complexity, by nature you can have fraud and mistakes. You'll have more of that than in a company that shovels sand from a river and sells it. This will always be true of financial companies, including ones run by governments. If you want accurate numbers from financial companies, you're in the wrong world.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Mistake, Government

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