#timon

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

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Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

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Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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Testimony gives something to be interpreted. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

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First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot. ↗

— Christopher Shays

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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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