"What greater wound is there than a false…" — Sophocles

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• Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
• A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine
• We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only… — Dan Aykroyd
• Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in… — Sai Baba
• An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and… — Russell Baker
• You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never… — Stanley Baldwin
• I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it… — Alan Ball
• I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask… — Roseanne Barr
• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend… — Ethel Barrymore
• A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of… — Saul Bellow
• It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and… — John Belushi
• History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,… — Ambrose Bierce

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