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• The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Two, Deception

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.... It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.

  Mike Huckabee

  Rights, Government, Civilization

  "Huckabee Denies He Ever Called For Quarantining AIDS Patients, Contradicts His Own Comments". The Associated Press Interview, thinkprogress.org. 1992.

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• It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.

  Thom Yorke

  Sorry, Writing, Emotional

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• We cannot leap into world government through one quick step... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Moving, World Government, Steps

  The first State of the World Forum, www.globalresearch.ca. 1995.

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• To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Couple, Independent, Men

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• Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

  Napoleon Hill

  Silence, Think And Grow Rich, Modesty

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.132, Penguin

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• My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.

  Anton Chekhov

  Business, Thinking, Artist

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• It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from one's partner in the discussion, which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there, the discussion wrighteous stupidityill be the more fruitful the more the partner's backgrounds differ.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Learning, Knowledge

  Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.158, Routledge

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• A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

  Leonardo Sciascia

  Regret, Nice, Stupidity

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• As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment.

  Molefi Kete Asante

  Commitment, People, Achievement

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• 'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.'

  Russell Crowe

  Regret, Men, Oscars

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• I think any genuine leader today has to learn leadership the hard way-by doing it. That means embracing turbulence and crisis, not avoiding it. It means "flying through the thunderstorm." That's not to say that there are no basic principles to orient you to the challenge. Indeed, I describe some in the book. But there are no simple recipes. Until you have lived it, you don't really know how to do it. That's what I mean by "leadership the hard way."

  Dov Frohman

  Leadership, Book, Mean

  "Why Leadership Is Like Flying Through a Thunderstorm: An Interview with Dov Frohman". Interiew with Robert Howard, www.leadershipthehardway.com.

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• Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through the centuries, France has provided answers to the great questions facing mankind. In continuing to do so, France is responding to a genuine demand, displaying leadership and influencing the course of events.

  Jacques Chirac

  Leadership, Country, Lying

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• Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

  Douglas Coupland

  Real, Failure, States

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• A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

  Tom Stoppard

  Education, Men, Genuine Love

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “The Invention of Love”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Spiritual, Ideas, Ties

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• Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

  Austin O'Malley

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Two

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• As Gandhi wisely points out, even as we serve others we are working on ourselves; every act, every word, every gesture of genuine compassion naturally nourishes our own hearts as well. It is not a question of who is healed first. When we attend to ourselves with compassion and mercy, more healing is made available for others. And when we serve others with an open and generous heart, great healing comes to us.

  Wayne Muller

  Healing, Heart, Compassion

  Wayne Muller (1993). “Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• When you make genuine contact with your inner Spirit, there is an inner joy, an inner peace, that takes over.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Law Of Attraction, Joy

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Dec 28, 2012

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• Developing a character with genuine depth requires a focus on not just desire but how the character deals with frustration of her desires, as well as her vulnerabilities, her secrets, and especially her contradictions. This development needs to be forged in scenes, the better to employ your intuition rather than your intellect.

  David Corbett

  Character, Frustration, Focus

  "The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV". Book by David Corbett, January 29, 2013.

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• Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

  J. Budziszewski

  Ignorance, Different, Recognition

  J. Budziszewski (2010). “The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man”, p.15, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.

  Edward Humes

  Two, Theory Of Evolution, Radio

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• But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Humility, Self, Arrogance

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• It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

  Friedrich Schiller

  School, Adversity, Challenges

  "The Philosophical and Aesthetic Letters and Essays".

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• Let me break it down for you again,
  You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine:
  Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.

  Lauryn Hill

  Rap, Rocks, Hip Hop

  Song: Doo Wop

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