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Knowledge is true opinion.
Plato

Knowledge, Opinion

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, Give, Water

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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
Paracelsus

Dreams, Great, Accepted

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson

Time, Wise, Pain

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey

Friendship, Another, Essence

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama

Today, Struggle, Win

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert Kennedy

Society, Law, Community

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
Walt Disney

Life, Dreams, Money

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Will Durant

Time, Fool, May

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
John Wooden

Yourself, Else, Everyone

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Henry Ward Beecher

Giving, Trying, After

Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.
Ismail Haniyeh

Time, Truth, Fake

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
Ernest Hemingway

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Best, Possible, Pessimist

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle

Kindness, Heart, Laugh

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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. Henry

Fate, Goes, Meet

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Friendship, Friend

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach

Work, Power, May

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
Nora Ephron

Men, Feelings, Cry

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James M. Barrie

Life, Dreams, Hard

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Margaret Thatcher

Yes, Platitudes

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise Pascal

Time, Philosophy

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Enemy, Affection

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Charles Caleb Colton

Friends, Again, Few

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness, Find, Risk

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Strength, Show, Himself

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Marcus Aurelius

Understand, Minds, Quality

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Person, Fact, Knew

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