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"I know some of you may disagree with me. The answer to Donald Trump, you may say, is to do just the opposite of Donald Trump. Being noble, being kind, being classy. And I am all for each of those thin…"

"We must face the reality that millions of illegal immigrants are already here. They should not be given an automatic; that is. I oppose amnesty. There is a rational middle ground between granting an a…"

"I can show you the truth of evolution. I can show you the facts of evolution. I can show you the positively indicative and physical evidence that is exclusively concordant with one conclusion over any…"

"My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy."

"Hilary Putnam: On Mind, Meaning and Reality, Interview by Josh Harlan, The Harvard Review of Philosophy, spring 1992."

"To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist."

"The people from Prague and other Czechs should be whipped who speak half Czech and half German And who could enumerate how the Czech language has already been corrupted, so that the true Czech hears t…"

"Intimacy—real honest intimacy—is one of the most radical things you can do right now. It’s like an endangered species to connect to your feelings and actually be present…"

"I personally have a great sense of honour and gratitude just for knowing him... It's easier for us to trust in the utter reality of poetry, trust in it as a necessity because you feel it's verified by…"

"The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not."

"A true conservative — who is, above all, an anti-ideologue — will often be attacked for alleged inconsistency, for changing positions, for promising change but not a radical break with the past, for p…"

"Ruskin says that anyone who expects perfection from a work of art knows nothing of works of art. This is an appealing sentence that, so far as I can see, is not true about a few pictures and statues a…"

"Give me the taste of truth any day."

"Everybody caught one another's eye with a 'Spot the loon' look when Benn was talking. The show was probably true to life, since each minister had a vested interest in briefing the journalist chosen to…"

"The cast of mind which is natural to a discreet man, make him look forward into futurity, and consider what will be his condition millions of ages hence, as well as what it is at present. He knows tha…"

"Anatoly Karpov and I donated the prize fund from our 1986 world championship match to the Chernobyl victim relief fund."

"True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit ; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us."

"In society's eyes the virtue of saying the right thing at the right time is more important that the virtue of telling the whole truth, or even of telling the truth at all."

"The truth .. .When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the window, then truth for me is the way nature shows itself in its various ton…"

"Man’s true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever."