Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.


Harold Evans

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Today we are attempting to look at risks proactively.
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Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
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The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
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A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
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It gives us a boost. How many places are attempting to get a covered bridge rebuilt?
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It is clear that the father was trying to get them out, ... Everyone was attempting to escape.
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Marketing is the major thing we're attempting now. We hope to get the product introduced to people.
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Stereotypes need to be discarded.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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To be straight means to be loyal to the truth.
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I guess this means I get to eat first at Thanksgiving.
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Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
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I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.
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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
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The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.
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Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
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The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surp...
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
HAROLD BLOOM
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or ...
HAROLD BLOOM
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been in...
HAROLD BLOOM
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that yo...
HAROLD BLOOM
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
HAROLD BLOOM
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, ev...
HAROLD BLOOM
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems t...
HAROLD BLOOM
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the...
HAROLD BLOOM
Shakespeare is universal.
HAROLD BLOOM
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound...
HAROLD BLOOM
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage eve...
HAROLD BLOOM
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
HAROLD BLOOM
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh...
HAROLD BLOOM
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we h...
HAROLD BLOOM
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
HAROLD BLOOM
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets h...
HAROLD ACTON
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and ...
HAROLD PINTER
We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do...
HAROLD MACMILLAN
A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this...
HAROLD MACMILLAN
My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD
I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
GALE HAROLD
You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa...
GALE HAROLD
You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
GALE HAROLD
Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. ...
GALE HAROLD
My interests are not really with television, per se.
GALE HAROLD