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• The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Broken, Resistance, Unfaithful

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• There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Acting, Unfaithful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.

  Ann Druyan

  Meaningful, Children, Believe

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• Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

  Meister Eckhart

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• If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

  Tom Stoppard

  Enough, Said, Knows

  "And now, the real thing" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Strange, Imagine, Said

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 23, 2012

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• I would go to the office to visit my father [Pablo Escobar] and regardless of who he was meeting, he would drop everything to receive me in his office. In the series, the priorities that my father demonstrates are completely inverted and untrue.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Office, Priorities

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe

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• Hateful material travels the globe. A few years ago, CNN, America's Der Sturmer, ran a story about Black parents being so low down that they abandoned their children and the children had to eat rats. I was at a University in Wisconsin at the time and the mother of a student from South Africa called to see whether the story was true. She had seen it all the way over there. The story was untrue. The children lied. CNN never corrected the story.

  Ishmael Reed

  Mother, Children, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Patterns, Truth Is, Whole

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Five Ways to Forgiveness”, p.123, Library of America

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• I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

  Lady Gaga

  Honesty, Night, Talking

  "Lady Gaga: 'People think I'm finished'" by Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2013.

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• I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.

  Tibor Kalman

  Photography, Believe, Being True

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• If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving, Answers, Ask Me

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• We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.

  Gregory Bateson

  Technology, Today, Way

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.510, University of Chicago Press

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• It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Order, Income, Rich

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.397, VM eBooks

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• Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Views, Holiness

  Oswald Chambers (2014). “Love: A Holy Command”, p.87, Discovery House

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• The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Common, Folly

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• That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.

  Victoria Moran

  Opportunity, Earth, Mail

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• I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Crazy, America, Pakistan

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

  Kola Boof

  Children, Father, Sibling

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I think that Donald Trump just loves to say anything he wants no matter how crazy or untrue it might be and just keep repeating it. And he thinks that that's going to be fine. And for a lot of people, it is, so it seems to be working for him.

  Jolene Ivey

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Hillary Clinton said there was no marked classified information on her server. The FBI Director said that's untrue.She said that she did not email any classified information. The FBI Director says that's untrue.

  Chris Christie

  Information, Email, Directors

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Republican convention speech, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• You have Donald Trump just making outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue.

  Hillary Clinton

  Accusing Me, Trump, Fabrication

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

  Ian MacKaye

  Nice, Writing, Thinking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Sacrifice, Unjust, Chess

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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