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“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.”

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Author:Abraham Maslow

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself.”

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Author:Audrey Hepburn

“You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.”

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Book:A Heap o' Living'

Source: A Heap o' Living'

“The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.”

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Author:Tony Robbins

“Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

“Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.”

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Author:Elmina Shepard Taylor

“The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.”

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Book:Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

Source: Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

“It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.”

“Rejoice when other scientists do not believe what you know to be true. It will give you extra time to work on it in peace. When they start claiming that they have discovered it before you, look for a new project.”

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Author:Efraim Racker

“Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.”

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Book:Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism

“Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.”

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Book:Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

“In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.”

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Book:Church Dogmatics Study Edition 21: The Doctrine of Reconciliation IV.1 § 57-59

Source: Church Dogmatics Study Edition 21: The Doctrine of Reconciliation IV.1 § 57-59

“No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.”

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Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really appear to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn't stay there any longer and had to go somewhere else to make it. That's all. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts. Those who were making it in England, for example, did not get on the Mayflower. That's how the country was settled.”

“So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.”

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Author:Stephen Gaskin

“I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.”

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Author:Julia Child

“In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.”

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Author:Laozi

“Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.”

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Book:The Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant

Source: The Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant

“To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.”

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Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.”

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Book:Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)

Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)

“I felt like my vote was the vote that put [Obama] into office. It was down to one vote, and that was going to be my vote. And that may not be true, but that's how much power it felt like I had.”

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Author:Puff Daddy

“Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.”

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Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.”

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Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go wrong?”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“Children are certainly too good to be true.”

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Book:The Collected Letters (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Collected Letters (Annotated Edition)

“I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.”

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Book:Off the court

Source: Off the court

“Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!”

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Book:Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated

Source: Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated

“It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.”

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Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.”

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Author:Frederick William Robertson

“A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.”

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no king or contest or fiery furnace will be able to compromise us. For the success of the kingdom of God on earth, may we stand as witnesses for Him "at all times and in all things, and in all places that we may be in, even until death."”

“I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.”

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Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.”

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Book:The Maslow Business Reader

Source: The Maslow Business Reader

“A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

“If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“A visitor to Niels Bohr's country cottage, noticing a horseshoe hanging on the wall, teasing the eminent scientist about this ancient superstition. "Can it be true that you, of all people, believe it will bring you luck?' 'Of course not,' replied Bohr, 'but I understand it brings you luck whether you believe it or not.'”

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Author:Niels Bohr

“It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.”

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Author:Dan Millman

“I will obey my soul and be true to that within me which is highest.”

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Book:The Selected Teachings of Wallace D. Wattles

Source: The Selected Teachings of Wallace D. Wattles

“[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.”

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Author:G. H. Hardy

“I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most of the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as “nigh -walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.” But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer imiverse, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder.”

“First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.”

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Author:William James

“The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification-the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.”

Source: The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery

“In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed that the earth, instead of being stationary, was moving around at a great and variable speed in a universe that is much bigger than it appears to our immediate perception. That proposal, I believe, was first made by Aristarchos two millenia ago ... Remarkably enough, the name Aristarchos in Greek means best beginning.”

“It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.”

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Author:Sydney Schanberg

“If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.”

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Author:Dan Barker