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Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions Picture Quote #1

You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion’s claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is Picture Quote #1

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self Picture Quote #1

Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect Picture Quote #1

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange Picture Quote #1

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true Picture Quote #1

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False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant we just go into the shade, let alone the darkness Picture Quote #1

You have to have hope. It’s irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it’s irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of Picture Quote #1

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it Picture Quote #1

I don’t want to be a celebrity athlete. When you are, there’s this pressure on you. It’s like you have this halo over your head and have to walk on eggshells. That’s not for me. All that glamour builds up a false sense of ego. It’s not needed. I’m already happy with who I am. My job is just to get on the podium Picture Quote #1

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth Picture Quote #1

We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world Picture Quote #1

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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false Picture Quote #1

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain Picture Quote #1

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie Picture Quote #1

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying Picture Quote #1

Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false Picture Quote #1

I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into... if you heat yourself up Picture Quote #1

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Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined Picture Quote #1

Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place Picture Quote #1

Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes! Picture Quote #1

People get so used to the dark that they think it’s growing brighter. It’s possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable Picture Quote #1

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self Picture Quote #1

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Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex Picture Quote #1

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium Picture Quote #1

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work Picture Quote #1

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong Picture Quote #1

Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings Picture Quote #1

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false Picture Quote #1

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Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions (False Quotes) You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion’s claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is (False Quotes) Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self (False Quotes) Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect (False Quotes) Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange (False Quotes) The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true (False Quotes) False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant we just go into the shade, let alone the darkness (False Quotes) You have to have hope. It’s irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it’s irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of (False Quotes) Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it (False Quotes) I don’t want to be a celebrity athlete. When you are, there’s this pressure on you. It’s like you have this halo over your head and have to walk on eggshells. That’s not for me. All that glamour builds up a false sense of ego. It’s not needed. I’m already happy with who I am. My job is just to get on the podium (False Quotes) The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth (False Quotes) We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world (False Quotes) The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false (False Quotes) Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain (False Quotes) All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie (False Quotes) If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying (False Quotes) Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false (False Quotes) I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into... if you heat yourself up (False Quotes) Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined (False Quotes) Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place (False Quotes) I feel more comfortable when I’m somebody else, I think. When I’m taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false (False Quotes) Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes! (False Quotes) People get so used to the dark that they think it’s growing brighter. It’s possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable (False Quotes) It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self (False Quotes) Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex (False Quotes) I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium (False Quotes) Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work (False Quotes) He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong (False Quotes) Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings (False Quotes) He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false (False Quotes)

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