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• If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

  Dexter Gordon

  Black, Would Be, Unfaithful

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• A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

  Catherine Crowe

  Age, Impossible, Unfaithful

  Catherine Crowe (1850). “The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers”, p.205

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• The untrue things don't deserve to be respected!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Deserve

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• At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true...This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.

  Stephen Prothero

  Beautiful, Europe, Lovely

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• Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

  Charles Templeton

  Thinking, Belief, Should

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• It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.

  Leland Ryken

  Discovery, Self, Expression

  Leland Ryken (2003). “Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective”, p.180, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

  Tom Stoppard

  Enough, Said, Knows

  "And now, the real thing" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

  George Mikes

  Liars, Dirty, Stories

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• To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Numbers, People, Know Me

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• But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000, and paint barely 1 in 100 of those that I photograph. I am therefore seeking something quite specific; from this I conclude that I know what I want.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mind, Landscape

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Mar 19, 2015

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• One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue... There cannot possibly be anything in it because neither side has anything to do with the other.

  David Hilbert

  Believe, Science, Facts

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• People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

  Kitty Kelley

  Mean, People, Doe

  "Unauthorized, But Not Untrue" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2010.

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• Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but counterproductive and untrue to those values they were meant to defend. In fact neither man demonstrated much faith in those values.

  William Shawcross

  Mean, Reality, Men

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• It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

  Nancy Reagan

  Father, Conservative, Rich

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• Lipstick on your collar said you were untrue. Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through.

  Connie Francis

  Dollars, Said, Collars

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• Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Reality, Squares

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• Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

  Francis Spufford

  Believe, Stuff, Fool

  Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber

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• If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.

  Sean Young

  Responsibility, People, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.

  Andy Cohen

  News, Entertainment, Internet

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• This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

  Rick Warren

  Ideas, Bored, Important

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.27, Zondervan

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• Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about me - but it was very hurtful. And there was like, a period of time that it was very panicky, I was very upset. And my son at the time was, I guess seven, eight months old, and I would wake up early with him and let my wife sleep.

  David Plotz

  Sleep, Son, Up Early

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Truth, World

  Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (2009). “Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night”, p.11, Infobase Publishing

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• Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Thinking, Facts

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• Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.

  Robert Draper

  Watches, Tvs, Newspapers

  "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.

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• I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Believe, Commitment, Truthful

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