#rut

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. ↗

— Alexander Berkman

#blind obedience #brutish #callousness #destruction #irresponsible

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. ↗

— Irving Berlin

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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#contempt #culture #disinformation #form #garbage

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. ↗

— Charles Bradlaugh

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One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't. ↗

— Lin Biao

#chairman #chairman mao #every #his #mao

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them. ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#discerned #godly #graces #least #may

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. ↗

— Herbert Gold

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Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#between #come #even #human #human love

I've never talked to our guys about being young. That's an easy crutch to fall on. You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#being #build #come #crutch #done