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Quote by Joseph Conrad
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of ones enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with ones friends. – Joseph Conrad

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The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. – Joseph Conrad

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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. – Joseph Conrad

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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. – Khalil Gibran

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By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. – Yukio Mishima

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The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. – Lewis Thomas

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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – theyre gonna cough. – Barbra Streisand

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A life which does not go into action is a failure. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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