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“This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.”

Facts Sound Truth Is Ordinary Extraordinary Statements

Author:Brian Perkins

“When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.”

Way Kind Character Political Literature Sound Statements Pretentious Trainspotting

Author:Irvine Welsh

“As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.”

Should Important Play Choices Sound Roles Weapons Critical Debate Statements Experts Bites Discourse Sound Bites

Author:David Corn

“It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do.”

Giving Looks Given Sound Minutes Honest Havens Fairs Vote Responsible Election Strikes Statements Damn Things To Do Voters Not Fair

Author:Jeff Greenfield

“A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.”

Real Sound Issues Policy Vices Statements Radical Meat Phrases Typical American Politics Fury Cautious Avoidance Announcements Weasels

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.”

Sound Statements Psychological Metaphysical Assertion Westerners

Book:The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion

“A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”

Believe Sound Poet Exciting Statements Being True Throat Lumps Homesickness Auden Lovesickness Lump In The Throat

Author:Robert Frost

“Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.”

People Men Believe Has Beens Difficult Sound Amount Equal Incredibles Average Spread Flesh Statements Delusion Vegetables Surprising Vegetarianism Average Man

Book:Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern

Source: Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern