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«The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion»
Author: Walter Lippman
(Editor, Writer)
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discussion, emerge, free discussion, Free Press, instance, presented, theory of
«The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
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«Something cannot emerge from nothing.»
«Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's notto be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we areto the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.»
Author: Jerry Seinfeld
(Actor, Comedian)
| About:
Birthday
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birthday cake, cake, candles, emerge, flicker, flickering, flickers, gone by, self-will, self-willed
«The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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as a whole, consequence, emerge, imperceptible, individually, intrude, intrudes, intrude into, intrude on, intruding, privacy, regions, secret societies, secret society, unlike, viewed, whittle, whittled, whittles
«Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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add to, and so on, dip, dipping, dips, dip into, emerge, indefinitely, indifferent, meanwhile, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating, Truth The
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