30 Quotes About Truism
- Author Douglas Hofstadter
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This was a tall order, and one could criticize it on the grounds that it was somewhat circular: how can you justify your methods of reasoning on the basis of those same methods of reasoning? It is like lifting yourself up by your own bootstraps.
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- Author Robert A. Heinlein
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
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- Author Betsy Talbot
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The Poets say you can live on love alone, but if that were true their books would be free.
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- Author Groucho Marx
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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- Author Talib Kweli
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Life without knowledge is death in disguise...
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- Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.
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- Author John Ciardi
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Hell is the denial of the ordinary...
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- Author James Islington
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The old saying is wrong, you know--a common enemy does not a friendship make. You can only ever be as good as the people you are willing to fight beside. [...] Alliances made from convenience only ever weaken a cause.
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- Author Chuck Klosterman
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When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jefferson. Only Wilson appears to be seriously fading, probably because his support for the World War I-era Sedition Act now seems outrageous; in this analogy, Woodrow is like the Doors and the Sedition Act is Oliver Stone.
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