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«There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.»
«Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.»
«The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.»
«The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Understanding
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distorting, distorts, false, irregularly, mingles, mingling, mirror, rayed, rays, receiving, The Nature of Things, X ray
«One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.»
Author: Robert Collier
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believe, comes, dominated by, dominating, false, falser, falsest, false statement, often, of one mind, oneself, repeats, statement, sufficiently, The Statement, thought, true, true statement
«Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Reputation
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deserving, false, idle, imposition, impositions, merit, merited, oft
«People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Confidence,
Gifts,
Trust
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complete, conferring, confers, confer with, false, inference, inferences, no confidence, ours, rights
«The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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almost, Almost always, false, false face, humanity, rule, save, The Urge, urge
«Some people think George is weird, because he has sideburns behind his ears. I think George is weird, because he has false teeth with braces on them.»
«To show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy»
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