What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel Johnson
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CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.
Jake Tapper
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We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.
Frank Murphy
TimeTrustReasonRightsFalseUsed
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
Benjamin E. Mays
CommunicationFalseHardly
Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
T. C. Boyle
HopeMeWantMoreEveryoneFalse
It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
Natalie Massenet
TimeMoneyPeopleFreeFalseShop
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
Harold Pinter
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Carl von Clausewitz
IntelligenceWarMoreFalseReports
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
E. O. Wilson
ChangeDieWillOldHardFalse
As president, Trump does and says outrageous and false things every week, from ordering arbitrary travel bans to accusing President Obama of illegal wiretapping with no evidence.
Jennifer Palmieri
TravelWeekPresidentEvidenceFalse
I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.
Robert Kiyosaki
LivePromisesAdviceBadFalse
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
John Stuart Mill
EvilOpinionNeverFalseSureWould
False Claims Act violators who self-report generally receive the same penalties and face the same damages as those who are caught. I think this makes very little sense.
Trent Franks
FaceThinkSameLittleFalseAct
A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
Mason Cooley
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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I don't like false modesty.
Dominic Holland
ModestyFalseLikeFalse Modesty
That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater.
Colin Trevorrow
StorySometimesRealAudienceFalse
I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.
Allen Johnson
StartCareerYearsFalseBeenAgain
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
William R. Alger
TrueFalseExaggerationEloquence
Sentimentality is a false sense of self.
Pete Hamill
SelfFalseSenseSentimentality
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.
Noam Chomsky
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You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.
Leonard Nimoy
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My statue at Ole Miss is a false idol. And it wasn't put there for my benefit. It was put there for Ole Miss and Mississippi.
James Meredith
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When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
Henry Flynt
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