#false

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#every #evidence #facts #false #falseness

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else. ↗

— Patti Davis

#as far as #else #false #far #hope

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#give #idea #means #must #painting

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#binds #false #future #herself #past

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials. ↗

— John Edwards

#ceo #company #did #dollars #facts

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#best #course #either #empower #false

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#brave #call #country #false #free

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it. ↗

— Henry Flynt

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I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort. ↗

— Christy Turlington

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