Hearsay Quote by Hubert H. Humphrey

“The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.”

Hubert H. Humphrey

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Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;…

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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are.…

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Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

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Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

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Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or…

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You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're…

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There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not…

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National isolation breeds national neurosis.

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Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

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There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

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So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most…

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Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others,…

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For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in…

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The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan.

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We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a…

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It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

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We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense…

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“You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of…

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“Taking your clothes off and spreading yourself on top of Roman Bradford’s desk is a bad idea.” “I was thinking more along the lines…

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

George Bernard Shaw

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“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with…

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