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The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
Benjamin Whichcote
Truth
Strongest
Voices
Longest
Most
False
Measures
Sword
Lungs
People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.
Bennett Miller
Entertainment
Jokes
People
Excitement
Attracted
Attractive
Sure
Still
False
Stories
Fantasies
Might
I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I'm not saying that people who take acting lessons are false. They're much better than I am, but it doesn't work for me.
Betty White
Work
Saying
Me
Natural
People
Better
Take
Am
False
Than
Just
Want
Much
Acting
Who
Lessons
Bring
It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.
Bill Bennett
World
Nation
Extraordinary
States
Leading
Supposedly
Call
Learned
Terrorist
Hear
False
Very
Person
Quite
Nations
Teaching
United
United States
Treacherous
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Blaise Pascal
Love
Natural
Mind
Will
Believe
Must
Objects
Attach
True
False
Want
To Love
Themselves
I'd say the best way to train someone is to remember that you have two ears and one mouth, and use them in that ratio. That's hard to do, and ultimately what we've learned is how many false positives you get from listening to what someone says they're going to do instead of observing what they actually do.
Brad D. Smith
Best
You
Remember
Listening
Mouth
Ears
Way
Positives
Say
Says
Best Way
Someone
Ratio
Instead
Observing
Learned
How
False
Ultimately
Train
Get
Going
Them
Use
Hard
Many
Actually
Two
No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.
Brendan Myers
Faulty
No-One
Ideas
False
Believing
Served
The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there's some element of security that we have in working on a theory that hasn't made any predictions that can be proven false. In a sense, we're working on something unfalsifiable.
Brian Greene
Funny
People
Sometimes
Made
Some People
Sense
Field
Think
Funny Thing
Security
Some
Something
Outside
Proven
False
Impression
Get
Any
Predictions
Working
Theory
Element
Thing
The idea that just because you are a woman you should be supporting Hillary Clinton I think is false. There is a broad base of political views.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
You
Woman
Political
Think
Broad
Idea
Supporting
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Because
Clinton
False
Political Views
Just
Just Because
Should
Views
Base
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
Charles Olson
Truth
You
Everybody
Tell
Some
Read
Because
False
Interesting
Even
Extent
Many of the criticisms about McDonald's are false. We are keen to provide people with as much nutritional information as possible to help them manage their diets.
Charlie Bell
People
Nutritional
Possible
Criticisms
About
Provide
False
Manage
Diets
Information
McDonald
Them
Much
Help
Many
Keen
As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.
Chris Ware
Alone
Myself
Solitude
Whatever
Nothing
Older
Those
Though
More
Know
Likely
Also
Periods
Occasionally
Gotten
False
Than
Nostalgia
Wanted
Nostalgic
Realize
Means
Found
Earlier
I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.
Christie Brinkley
Love
Me
Fall
Totally
He
Head
Got
False
Person
Whacked
Presented
To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.
Christine Pelosi
Science
Word
Too
Vast
Vast Majority
Global
Global Warming
Majority
Proven
Scientists
False
Handful
Role
Modern
Acknowledge
Mankind
Far
Warming
Viewed
Standards
Who
Many
Media
Four-Letter
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
Christopher Hitchens
School
Other
Philosophy
Way
Solved
Determines
Around
False
Question
Antithesis
May
Being
Whether
Ever
Consciousness
We will not try to out-Ukip Ukip. Labour is not going to offer false solutions, such as leaving Europe.
Chuka Umunna
Try
Will
Solutions
Leaving
False
Offer
Labour
Going
Europe
We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.
Cindy Sheehan
War
Time
Happy
Every
Changed
Every Time
President
Way
Has-Been
Objective
Over
Reached
Proven
Been
His
False
Handled
Being
Reason
Reasons
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.
Clifford Geertz
Science
Perception
Humanities
Think
Gulf
Between
False
Being
Deep
The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.
Clint Smith
Women
People
Brilliant
Men
Fathers
Presidents
Wrestle
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Fact
Color
Also
Sort
Idols
Were
False
Up
Against
Prejudices
Deep
Many
Founding
Founding Fathers
Raise
In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.
Clint Smith
School
Every
Assumption
Ways
Pretense
Make
False
Very
Child
Same
Places
Choice
Choices
Notion
Choose
Many
Set
'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the problems that shape our students' lives.
Clint Smith
Work
Teacher
Me
Problems
Our
Pretense
Shape
Students
Instead
Talk
False
Being
Confront
Apolitical
Should
Teachers
Lives
Reject
That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.
Colin Trevorrow
Sometimes
About
Misinterpreted
Leaks
False
Thing
Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false.
Connie Chung
Husband
Every
Honestly
Our
Once
See
Tabloid
Tabloids
Both
Tend
Attention
Well
Another
Always
False
Them
Ignore
Reason
Awhile
These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause.
Cory Booker
Better
Cause
Space
Nation
Ourselves
Purpose
Allowed
Like
Got
False
Ultimately
Infect
Common
Common Cause
Race
Us
Rid
Barriers
United
Illusions
This is in us: a certain sense of denial, a certain sense of groupthink. This is not something that sits on one party line or the other. We've seen it in all permutations throughout history, and at the core of it is a certain insistence that what we want to be true is now true, and what we don't like is now false.
Craig Mazin
History
Denial
Be True
Seen
Party
Sense
Other
One Party
Insistence
Something
Throughout
True
Like
Party Line
Line
False
Want
Us
Certain
Now
Core
Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
Damien Hirst
Success
Best
You
Own
Terms
Goal
False
Being
Your
Measure
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