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• When I started meditating, even doing yoga, I felt like it was hard to allow myself to develop any other kind of practice [outside of Judaism], like I was somehow being untrue to my heritage, and that was something I had to get over and was probably the greatest revelation to me.

  Dani Shapiro

  Yoga, Practice, Heritage

  "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

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• Lying is common in social life, often done for benign purposes, seldom draws severe sanctions, and many of the most notable leaders, including the late Steve Jobs, were consummate prevaricators. Told with enough persistence and conviction, what was once untrue can become true, in a self-fulfilling prophecy sort of way.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Jobs, Lying, Persistence

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Every single day, something comes out of the [Ted] Cruz campaign that's deceptive and untrue, and in this case, goes after my faith. This is a pattern now, and I think we're now at a point where we start asking about accountability.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Accountability, Asking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.

  Moshe Kasher

  Kids, Black, Firsts

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing's inherently believable about any kind of fiction, because all of it's untrue.

  Heidi Julavits

  Fake People, School, Thinking

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• All religions are both harmful and untrue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.25, Routledge

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• The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

  Franz Kafka

  True Words, Mislead

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• Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

  Salman Rushdie

  Flying, Way, Made

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Millions

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

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• That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morality, Economics, Disregard

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.118, A&C Black

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• Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Names, Mind, Armor

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.241

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• I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Running, Hate, Thinking

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• Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Blow, Wind, People

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter VI, Section 11,

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• Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, it enforces these purely human outgrowths of overheated imagination on the ignorant masses, and calls them "revelation." As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Fashion, Religious, Views

  H.P. Blavatsky (2014). “Isis Unveiled”, p.780, Lulu Press, Inc

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• One thing that I'm really interested in is the kind of esoteric detail that surrounds these great figures. And Wikipedia is full of that kind of stuff, whether it's true or untrue. It staggers me: why, in the short space assigned to a person or an event, that kind of random information is there. To be honest, that's wonderful fuel for songwriting.

  Nick Cave

  Space, Wikipedia, Events

  "Nick Cave on the Evolution of His Music". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 28, 2014.

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• When some people rejoin with “All Lives Matter” they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue. It is true that all lives matter, but it is equally true that not all lives are understood to matter which is precisely why it is most important to name the lives that have not mattered, and are struggling to matter in the way they deserve.

  Judith Butler

  Struggle, Names, People

  "What’s Wrong With ‘All Lives Matter’?". Interview with George Yancy, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 12, 2015.

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• The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud.

  Henry Fairlie

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  Henry Fairlie (2015). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”, p.47, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.

  Phillip Adams

  Leadership, Hurt, Atmosphere

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• Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

  John Gay

  Math, Men, Views

  John Gay: Poetry and Prose Fables The Painter Who Pleased Nobody and Everybody 1. 1

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• I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.

  Mike Myers

  Laid Back, Different, Toronto

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one.

  Jude Law

  Broken, Looks, Stories

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• The untrue things don't deserve to be respected!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Deserve

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• Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are rewarded financially for it ... because life is unfair.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Say Anything, World, Cash

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• Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.

  Carl Maria von Weber

  Giving, Suffering, Important

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• What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

  H. L. Mencken

  Body, Professors, Function

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