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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes...

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Quote by Harold Evans about truth

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is...

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Quote by Frank Herbert about lie, light, truth

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to...

Quote by Harry Oppenheimer about nation, opinion, magic, failure

I'm often amazed at the way politicians -who spend hours pouring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks -are certain they know precisly what God's views are on everything

Quote by Simon Hoggart about politics, opinion, public, god

Do no at any account attempt to write on both sides of...

Do no at any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

Quote by W. C. Sellar about philosophy

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me...

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about faith

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living...

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Quote by Francis Bacon about fashion, art, magic

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about art, magic

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end...

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about mediocrity, end, man

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the...

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about impossible, absurd, order

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the...

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Quote by Bette Davis about work, impossible, order

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Quote by Winston Churchill about advice, country, fire, fire brigade, world

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about friendship, beauty, love

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

Quote by Richard Ernst about artists, time

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce...

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about order, home, affair, world, good, good luck

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince...

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Quote by Federico Fellini

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes...

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

Quote by Colin Firth about clothes, commerce, children, things

I don't have the kind of time it takes to nurture a relationship the way I'd like to right now, and I'd never attempt to jump into one unless I had that time.

Quote by Whitney Houston about time, rightness

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to...

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man, life

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections...

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing

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