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Letter "D" » distort
«English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.»
«Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.»
«One may distort [the truth] to preserve peace.»
«Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.»
«Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Novelist,
Writer)
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About:
Logic,
Mankind,
Truth
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Keywords:
abstract,
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abstracting,
deductions,
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evidence,
intentionally,
justify,
predilection,
predilections,
senses,
systems
«Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.»
«Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please»
«The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.»
«All people know the same truth; our lives consist of how we choose to distort them»