False Quotes

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I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather… — Bill Gates
I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time - never. These allegations… — William J. Clinton
Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All… — Stephen Sondheim
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false — Gerhard Richter
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not… — Stephen Jay Gould
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false — Clifford Geertz
When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result… — George Gershwin
There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears… — Jack Straw
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray,… — Vernon Howard
Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information, — Ted Olson
We have to do away with a false and misleading dualism, one which abstracts man on the one hand and technology on the other, as… — Daniel Callahan
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. — Edgar Degas
Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your… — Og Mandino
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will… — Henry George
The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong,… — George Orwell
[O]ld beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. — E. O. Wilson
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. — Paul Valery

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