"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."

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Richard Whately

#Truth Quotes #Wish Quotes #Sides Quotes

“...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I quoted Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing, who spoke these words to his former friend: "you are a Villain: I jest not." and then I collapsed into a pool of my own blood.”
“There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.”
“I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.”
“I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.”
“My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.”
“The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.”
“The ancestor of every action is a thought. â€”Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don't face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.”

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