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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. – Horatio Nelson

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We live in a world of denial, and we dont know what the truth is anymore. – Javier Bardem

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The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. – Stella Adler

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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. – Abraham Maslow

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