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It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
Gyorgy Legeti

Work, Home, Famous

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
George Boole

Growth, Culture, Perhaps

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.
Rudolf Hiferding

Law, Far, Value

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
Thomas Shadwell

Art, Heart, May

When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
Nate Mendel

Positive, Person, Between

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
Eduard Hanslick

Music, Beautiful, Feelings

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.
Jack Cade

Nothing, Law, Wrong

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.
Jack Cade

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.
Gregor Strasser

Wealth, Present, System

Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.
Paul Crouch

Made, Times, Trip

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.
Emperor Hirohito

Divine, Superior, Depend

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
William Jennings Bryant

Truth, May, Another

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
Nance O'Neil

Art, Emotional, True

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.
Konrad Zuse

True, State, News

The documents have not been conclusively proven false. Neither have they been proven authentic.
Bill Burkett

Neither, Authentic, Documents

Every white man in this country has been raised with a false sense of power.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Power, Country, Sense

The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments.
Slobodan Milosevic

Truth, Flood, Drowned

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