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truer
«I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America.»
Author: Hinton Helper
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Bowie, Bowie knife, California, finer, Francisco, furnish, guns, knives, liquors, pistols, prettier, purer, San, San Francisco, tobacco, truer, unbiased, visited
«The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.»
Author: M. Scott Peck
(Author, psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
answers, deeply, different, discomfort, discomforting, discomforts, feeling, finest, likely, moments, moment of truth, occur, occurring, propel, propelled, propelling, propels, ruts, rutting, searching, start, step, such, truer, uncomfortable, unfulfilled, unhappy, ways
«There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to ''realize'' myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have ''succeeded,'' this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is ''realizable.'' Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.»
«Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.»
«QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.Intent on making his quotation truer, He sought the page infallible of Brewer, Then made a solemn vow that we would be Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me! --Stumpo Gaker»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
brewer, erroneously, infallible, intent on, quotation, repeating, truer, vow
«Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.»
«No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
calamity, desirable, disappointed, every year, experiment, liberator, mysterious, on the contrary, seeker, trickery, truer
«Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.»
Author: Ovid
(Author, Poet)
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
acquaint, acquainted, acquainted with, acquainting, acquaints, affliction, hold off, truer
