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• The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

  James F. Cooper

  Real, Democracy, Levels

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• Truth is man's nature; to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in real life of the ideal of truth. Shanthi (Peace) is the result of Dharma and Preme (Love) is the sffulgence of Shanthi.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Love Is, Men

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• STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Stories, Narrative

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.210, 谷月社

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• The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Psychology, Moral

  Marriage and Morals ch. 16 (1929)

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• Don't let anyone tell you that you cannot know the truth for yourself or that you cannot achieve yourself spiritually without being tied to a temple or church. You were not born a spiritual slave. You are the authority who distinguishes what is true and untrue, spiritual and unspiritual.

  Hua Ching Ni

  Spiritual, Church, Temples

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• Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

  Quintilian

  Laughter, Laughing, Raises

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• To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

  Lauryn Hill

  Greed, Artistic, Compromise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Unjust Criticism, May, Accustomed

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• After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.

  Frank Beddor

  Love, Husband, Wife

  Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers

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• If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

  Byron Katie

  Moving, Fire, Hands

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• Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe.

  David F. Wells

  Attitude, Humble, Humility

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• To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Light, Shadow

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “The Scarlet Letter Thrift Study Edition”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Ties, Lovers

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring to such verses, there are some who attempt to give the impression that Islam is a religion of war and violence. This is total untrue. Such verses relate in a restricted sense, to those who have unilaterally attacked the Muslims. The above verse does not convey the general command of Islam. (pp. 42-43)

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  War, Giving, Islam

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• Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.

  Aidan Chambers

  Clever, Two, Mind

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• Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.

  Deborah Harkness

  Impossible, Seems

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.159, Penguin

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• The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It's beautiful.

  Penn Jillette

  Beautiful, Book, Kids

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

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• Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Running, Thinking

  "Minority Report".

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• What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

  Eugene Gendlin

  Integrity, People, Going Away

  "Focusing". Book by Eugene Gendlin, 1978.

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• Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

  Khalil Gibran

  Passion, Eye, Discipline

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• Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Lying

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle's house, had our meals sent up, and didn't emerge for several days. This is absolutely untrue. I would never behave like that as a guest in someone's home. Carlos and I went to my beach house.

  Martha Graham

  Beach, Home, Sight

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as "fictive," "fabricated," and "untrue to life" into the word "novelistic." Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion.

  Milan Kundera

  Fashion, Reading, May

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• While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.

  Simon Hoggart

  Foxes, Michael J Fox, Humour

  "This is a job for super-wonk" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, People, Unfaithful

  "Sources: Jackson accuser appeared on documentary", www.cnn.com. November 24, 2003.

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