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• I've heard fate talked of. It's not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives is our own doing, and we cannot fully hope on dreams and stars. But dreams and stars can guide us, perhaps. And the heart's voice is a strong one. Always is. Your heart's voice is your true voice. It is easy to ignore it, for sometimes it says what we'd rather it did not - and it is so hard to risk the things we have. But what life are we living, if we don't live by our hearts? Not a true one. And the person living it is not the true you.

  Susan Fletcher

  Dream, Strong, Stars

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• There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.

  Nicole Krauss

  Pain, Powerful, Emotion

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Her hair is ridiculous," I said. "I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.

  John Green

  Mean, Hair, People

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.46, A&C Black

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• The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

  Salvador Dali

  Love, Memories, Real

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Yes, last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in Chicago]. And this year we are already outpacing last year's numbers. Now, there are contributing factors that are not under anybody's control and may seem odd, but it is factually true. One of them is actually the weather. There is a dramatic increase in gun violence when it is warmer. And we are having this climate change effect that is driving that.

  Christie Hefner

  Gun, Years, Weather

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• The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

  Norm MacDonald

  Friends, Adversity, Prosperity

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• There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a good story-it's a true one. Searching for the souls of its explorers, it takes you to the far tip of the plank and plunges you deep to the bottom of the ocean.

  Brad Meltzer

  Ocean, People, Pirate

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• Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer holds a different pet theory on the subject, and pooh-poohs those of all the others. Nevertheless, the most self-evident explanation from the markings themselves is probably the true one; namely, that in them we are looking upon the result of the work of some sort of intelligent beings. . . . The amazing blue network on Mars hints that one planet besides our own is actually inhabited now.

  Percival Lowell

  Mean, Intelligent, Blue

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• Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

  Gavin Bryars

  Men, Skills, Ideas

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

  Peter Carey

  Class, Australia, Kingdoms

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• What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.776, e-artnow

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• In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reflection, Years

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 445 (21 July 1763)

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• It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.

  John Ruskin

  Eye, Talking, Sea

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.69, University of Virginia Press

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• False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

  Richard Dawkins

  Belief, Moments, Consoling

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The God Delusion”, p.398, Random House

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• The slaving Poor are incapable of any Principles: Gentlemen may be converted to true Principles, by Time and Experience. The middling Rank of Men have Curiosity and Knowledge enough to form Principles, but not enough to form true ones, or correct any Prejudices that they may have imbib'd: And 'tis among the middling Rank, that Tory Principles do at present prevail most in England.

  David Hume

  Men, Gentleman, Curiosity

  David Hume (1826). “The philosophical works of David Hume”, p.80

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• The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.

  Robert Southey

  Love, Dream, Reality

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• When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

  Isaac Watts

  Sophistry, Argument, Appearance

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.495

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• Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.

  Sholem Asch

  Book, Sea, Opposites

  Sholem Asch (1939). “The Nazarene”

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• Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.

  J. G. Holland

  Mouths, Moral, Conviction

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 290, 1895.

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• Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.

  Elizabeth Loftus

  Memories, Independent, Done

  "I Could Have Sworn". Interview with Alison George, www.slate.com. September 8, 2013.

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• What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

  Samuel Beckett

  Truth, Swim, Speak

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