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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. – Rebecca West

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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. – Rebecca West

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Intelligence
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Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. – Rebecca West

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Music
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. – Rebecca West

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History
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. – Emily Dickinson

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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. – Jean-Luc Godard

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Truth

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Whos your real friend? Its the person who tells you the truth. Thats who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that. – Bill Maher

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Truth

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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Truth

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Where the guilt is doubtful, a presumption of innocence should in general be admitted. – Junius

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My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar – I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one. – Bob Hope

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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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