The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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... truth is a reference to either a present or an imagined future majority in favor of our view . If , as I have suggested elsewhere , the truth may be defined as the system of my ( intellectual ) limitations , which gives it objectivity ...
... truth is a reference to either a present or an imagined future majority in favor of our view . If , as I have suggested elsewhere , the truth may be defined as the system of my ( intellectual ) limitations , which gives it objectivity ...
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... truth with it , and in accepting the arguments of the other man he is sure to get some error with it . . . . After I get hold of a truth I hate to lose it again , and I like to sift all the truth out before I give up an error . ORVILLE ...
... truth with it , and in accepting the arguments of the other man he is sure to get some error with it . . . . After I get hold of a truth I hate to lose it again , and I like to sift all the truth out before I give up an error . ORVILLE ...
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... truth ; that all deep , earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea ; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous , slavish shore ? But as in ...
... truth ; that all deep , earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea ; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous , slavish shore ? But as in ...
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