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• All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Justice, Liberty, Belief

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.59, Read Books Ltd

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• Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

  Donna Shalala

  Leadership, Moving, Thinking

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• If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Views, Needs, May

  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.45, U of Minnesota Press

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• The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first." "What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need." I found this to be true.

  Christopher Vokes

  Father, Blow, Practice

  "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 8), 1985.

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• I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Dozen, Sin, Found

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• Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Brother, Believe, Hands

  Judith Sargent Murray, Sharon M. Harris (1995). “Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and poetic rationalism, Brezsny weaves a yarn crazy enough to be true and real enough to subvert the literalist virus of cynicism now immobilizing the collective mindscape.

  Antero Alli

  Crazy, Real, Yarn

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• If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.

  Tomas Kalnoky

  Approval, Be True To Yourself, Seeking

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• To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can't lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Lying, Writing, Character

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• The problem facing humanity today is not a political problem; it's not a financial problem; it's not a military problem. It's obviously a spiritual problem. That is, it has to do with what we believe to be true about who we are, where we are, why we are where we are, and what are we doing on the Earth. What is the purpose of life itself? What we need right now are leaders or models, people who will stand up and not only help to write a cultural story, but help to model it in the way that they interact with each other.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Military, Believe

  Source: www.kabbalah.info

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• Christianity, Christ, heaven, hell, the judgment, sin, holiness, God,--these, and whether they be true, or false, and our personal relations to them, whether they be right or wrong, are things to know about, not to be doubting or guessing about.

  Herrick Johnson

  Heaven, Doubt, Guessing

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.

  Mike Svob

  Oneself, True To Oneself

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• The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.

  Howard Scott Warshaw

  Reality, Age, All Time

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• If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.

  David J. Lieberman

  Reality, Deals, Persons

  David J. Lieberman (2007). “You Can Read Anyone: Never be Fooled, Lied To, Or Taken Advantage of Again”, p.109, David Lieberman

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• Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.

  David J. Lieberman

  Believe, Support, Opinion

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• If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

  Jennifer Stone

  Knowledge, Reality, People

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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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

  Real, Book, Numbers

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com. September 22, 2011.

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• People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Thinking, People, Tvs

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• Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth, May, Strange

  Samuel Johnson (1833). “The Life of Johnson: with Maxims and Observations: Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Selected from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order”, p.269

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• Whatever the situation at hand, thats what Im dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  Rachael Harris

  Hands, Trying, Moments

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• My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

  Juliette Binoche

  Ambition, Moments

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• There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans.

  Vinnie Jones

  Stars, Kids, Play

  "Vinnie Jones Interviewed - THE CONDEMNED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 22, 2007.

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• What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

  Kellan Lutz

  Thinking, Keys, Design Process

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• The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.

  Lyle Lovett

  Being Yourself, Important, Likes

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• Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I’m nothing if I can’t be me. If I can’t be true to myself, they don’t mean anything.

  Kanye West

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mean

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