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• Every true passion thinks only of itself.

  Stendhal

  Passion, Thinking, True Passion

  Le Rouge et le Noir bk. 2, ch. 1 (1830)

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• The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

  Plutarch

  May, Gains, Strange

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• It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field.

  John Lloyd Young

  Character, Creative, Advice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!

  Milan Kundera

  Thinking, Novelists, Facts

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• I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Thinking, Imagination

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• People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.

  Margaret Cho

  Race, People, Political

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Often something that is in bad taste or considered to be in bad taste is something that's just very true but that people are unwilling to discuss or comment on.

  Margaret Cho

  People, Taste, Comment

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• The substance of every true and stable political organism is something resembling an Order, a Männerbünd in charge of the principle of the imperium, comprising men who see loyalty as the basis of their honor.

  Julius Evola

  Loyalty, Men, Order

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• In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Perception, Firsts

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.322, Princeton University Press

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• To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Cities, Citizens

  Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Gert (1972). “Man and Citizen: De Homine and De Cive”, p.11, Hackett Publishing

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• I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Senior, Humble, Answers

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Country, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.123, Penguin

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• I've been very true to know that I have a base of fans and I'm extremely loyal and extremely supportive to that base of fans. To the rest of them, I enjoy the fact that they fill the arenas and tell me to go to hell.

  John Cena

  Supportive, Fans, Loyal

  "CS Interview: WWE Superstar John Cena Slams Amy Schumer in Trainwreck". Interview with Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. July 14, 2015.

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• I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Writing, People, Scientist

  "Chud Rerun: Interview with Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Smilin' Jack Ruby, trouble.city. May 13, 2002.

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• I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

  Eve Bunting

  Strong, Book, Reading

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Heart, Humanity, Utterance

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.219

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• How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

  Yann Martel

  Mother, Invention, Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

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• I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

  Jane Austen

  Nice, Book, Mean

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• It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

  C. S. Lewis

  May, Traitor, Known

  "The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy".

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• It's funny about love', Sophia said. 'The more you love someone, the less he likes you back.' 'That's very true,' Grandmother observed. 'And so what do you do?' 'You go on loving,' said Sophia threateningly. 'You love harder and harder.

  Tove Jansson

  Grandmother, Goes On, Likes

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• For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with.

  Pico Iyer

  Country, Journey, Darkness

  "Oh to Wanderfly (and How It’ll Help You Travel)" by Jason Silva, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2010.

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• It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

  Agatha Christie

  People, Wiping Out, Detective Work

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Death on the Nile”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thoughtful, Perfect, Majesty

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.160, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

  Johann Arndt

  Christian, Mean, Blessing

  Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51

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• I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.

  Rachel Roy

  Feelings, Sound, Rooms

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