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  • Don't bother praying that I will believe what you call truth.

    Texas Faith: Should government practice social justice? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • "You've an undeniable facility, John, with what you call the truth."

    Kenny Leona Dalrymple

  • This accordance of our thought with the nature of things is the mark of what we call truth.

    The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Ernest Naville

  • But to minds strongly marked by the positive and negative qualities that create severity, —strength of will, conscious rectitude of purpose, narrowness of imagination and intellect, great power of self-control, and a disposition to exert control over others, —prejudices come as the natural food of tendencies which can get no sustenance out of that complex, fragmentary, doubt-provoking knowledge which we call truth.

    XII. A Family Party. Book VI—The Great Temptation 1917

  • The agnostic attitude -- as, for instance, in the matter of the immortality of the soul -- may in certain cases come to be the ultimate gesture of what we call the truth.

    The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

  • We may approach the chaos of life experience with different purposes, and led by any one of them we may reach that consistent unity of ideas for the limited outlook which we call truth.

    Psychology and Social Sanity Hugo M��nsterberg 1889

  • Everything is credible which makes for what it calls the truth.

    Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856

  • But to minds strongly marked by the positive and negative qualities that create severity, -- strength of will, conscious rectitude of purpose, narrowness of imagination and intellect, great power of self-control, and a disposition to exert control over others, -- prejudices come as the natural food of tendencies which can get no sustenance out of that complex, fragmentary, doubt-provoking knowledge which we call truth.

    The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849

  • It is my experience that our politicians and our military have what they call the truth.

    The Student Operated Press Richard Taylor 2010

  • I am, however, very interested in getting at that elusive thing we call the truth.

    Ronald Maxwell: On the Occasion of President Obama's Wreath for the Confederate Memorial 2009

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