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Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.
Jamie Oliver

Good, Food, Parents

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
Alex Kapranos

Music, Modesty, Indie

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
Lactantius

Wisdom, True, Point

I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.
Heather Mills

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.
Clifford Geertz

Science, Deep, Between

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
Alexander Herzen

Goal, Possible, Generation

Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.
James McGreevey

Life, Political, Republican

Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
Jasper Johns

Whatever, Seems, Artificial

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
David Horowitz

Work, Society, Ignorance

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
Frank Miller

Nothing, America, Thieves

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.
Ehud Olmert

Between, Dangerous, Comparison

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. Bradley

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
Livy

Nothing, Often, Attractive

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
James F. Cooper

Government, Opinion, Direction

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.
Charles Hodge

Giving, Another, Gospel

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.
Martin Amis

Good, Great, Fashion

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
Martha Gellhorn

Kindness, Away, Promises

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones.
Huston Smith

Truth, True, Scientific

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.
Kim Campbell

Hope, Real, Hopes

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
Matthew Arnold

Impossible, Knows, Standing

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
Bill James

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.
Morris Chestnut

Reality, Sense, Industry

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
John Philip Sousa

Music, Mind, Mean

To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.
Christine Pelosi

Science, Far, Word

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams

Through, Learn, Lived

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
Robert Walpole

History, Read, Oh

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
Augusten Burroughs

Novel, Note, Berg

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.
William Kingdon Clifford

Character, Done, Others

Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.
Errol Morris

True, May, Others

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas

True, Give, Idea

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