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While in the view of most American academics the two were as diametrically opposed as good and evil, Sakharov believed that in this " tragic confrontation of two outstanding people ," both deserved respect, because " each of them was certain he had right on his side and was morally obligated to go to the end in the name of truth.
Therefore, inherent in systems of power, is always " truth ," which is culturally specific, inseparable from ideology which often coincides with various forms of hegemony.
" I tell you the truth ," Jesus said to them, " no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life.
For others still, they see the Dharma as referring to the " truth ," or the ultimate reality of " the way that things really are " ( Tib.
The Egyptian conception of the universe centered on Ma ' at, a word that encompasses several concepts in English, including " truth ," " justice ," and " order.
The argument clearly depends on the assumption that if " good " were definable, it would be an analytic truth about " good ," an assumption many contemporary moral realists like Richard Boyd and Peter Railton reject.
" What I do like about him is he seems to be a guy who's interested in the truth ," Connick Jr. says of Haden.
" " The story of Mary of Magdala reminds us all of a fundamental truth ," Pope Benedict said.
Describing Baba as " The Messiah ," the article also claims he listed miracles he had performed, and said that a person who becomes one with the truth can accomplish anything, but that it is a weakness to perform miracles only to show spiritual power.
Plato set out to instead discover episteme, or " truth ," through the dialectical method.
In its first chapter, titled " The Mystery of the Church ," is the famous statement that " the sole Church of Christ which in the Creed we profess to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic, which our Saviour, after His Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with authority, which He erected for all ages as ' the pillar and mainstay of the truth.
Other misconceptions such as: " the Church prohibited autopsies and dissections during the Middle Ages ," " the rise of Christianity killed off ancient science ," and " the medieval Christian church suppressed the growth of the natural sciences ," are all reported by Numbers as examples of widely popular myths that still pass as historical truth, even though they are not supported by current historical research.
Biographer Lawrence Sutin quotes private diaries that fit this story, and writes that " if ever Crowley uttered the truth of his relation to the Book ," his public account accurately describes what he remembered on this point.
Examples of other changes are " truly I tell you " becomes " I tell you the truth ;" " fellow workers " becomes " coworkers ;" " the Jews ," particularly in John's Gospel, often becomes " Jewish leaders " when the context makes the statement's real meaning apparent ; and " miracles ," especially in John, become the more literal " signs ," " miraculous signs ," or " works.
In its first chapter, titled " The Mystery of the Church ," is the famous statement that " the sole Church of Christ which in the Creed we profess to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic, which our Saviour, after His Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with authority, which He erected for all ages as ' the pillar and mainstay of the truth.
Literally petitio principii means " assuming the premise " or " assuming the original point ," or, alternately, " a request for the beginning or premise ;" that is, the premise depends on the truth of the very matter in question.
" One never had the feeling he was ' acting ' in a scene ," said his four-time co-star Joan Bennett, " but the truth of the situation was actually happening, spontaneously, at the moment he spoke his lines.
This leads to the sort of paradoxes seen in statements such as " This statement is false ," wherein the sentence's basis of truth is found in referring to itself and its assertion, causing a logical paradox.

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Writer Harriet Martineau, for example, wrote dubiously that, " the master presupposes his little pupils possessed of all truth ; and that his business is to bring it out into expression ".
When Thomas Hobbes wrote that " the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof ", he was promulgating an enormously important truth.
American 20th-century novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote: " f all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man ’ s life upon this earth — and also the highest flower of poetry, eloquence, and truth.
The first published use of the term " evangelical " in English was in 1531 by William Tyndale, who wrote " He exhorteth them to proceed constantly in the evangelical truth.
For example, he wrote: " They declare that Judas the traitor was thoroughly acquainted with these things, and that he alone, knowing the truth as no other did, accomplished the mystery of betrayal ; by him all things were thus thrown into confusion.
For example, Calvin once wrote, " I have had much conversation with many Jews: I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness – nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
To refute his opponents, he wrote the book in which he endeavored to show that Holy Scripture contains all truth and, being from God, is the only authority.
St. Augustine of Hippo ( A. D. 354 – 430 ) wrote " Numbers are the Universal language offered by the deity to humans as confirmation of the truth.
Plato wrote in his Phaedrus that the " first prophecies were the words of an oak ", and that those who lived at that time found it rewarding enough to " listen to an oak or a stone, so long as it was telling the truth ".
In logic, Ockham wrote down in words the formulae that would later be called De Morgan's Laws, and he pondered ternary logic, that is, a logical system with three truth values ; a concept that would be taken up again in the mathematical logic of the 19th and 20th centuries.
He wrote to the palaeontologist Gideon Mantell on 5 March that year to say that the sale was " for the benefit of the poor woman and her son and daughter at Lyme, who have in truth found almost all the fine things which have been submitted to scientific investigation ...
: The sacred authors wrote the four Gospels, selecting some things from the many which had been handed on by word of mouth or in writing, reducing some of them to a synthesis, explaining some things in view of the situation of their churches and preserving the form of proclamation but always in such fashion that they told us the honest truth about Jesus
" To arrive at the truth ", he wrote in the preface to Le Lys dans la vallée, " writers use whatever literary device seems capable of giving the greatest intensity of life to their characters.
Historian Anne F. Thurston wrote that it " led to loss of culture, and of spiritual values ; loss of hope and ideals ; loss of time, truth and of life ..." Barnouin and Yu summarized the Cultural Revolution as " a political movement that produced unprecedented social divisions, mass mobilization, hysteria, upheavals, arbitrary cruelty, torture, killings, and even civil war ...", calling Mao " one of the most tyrannical despots of the twentieth century.
" One must not think that this idea ... of Hooke diminishes Newton's glory ", Clairaut wrote ; " The example of Hooke " serves " to show what a distance there is between a truth that is glimpsed and a truth that is demonstrated ".
" One must not think that this idea ... of Hooke diminishes Newton's glory ", Clairaut wrote ; " The example of Hooke " serves " to show what a distance there is between a truth that is glimpsed and a truth that is demonstrated ".
Roger Bacon wrote " If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.
Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose, who helped edit Other Losses, wrote I quarrel with many of your interpretations, I am not arguing with the basic truth of your discovery and acknowledged that Bacque had made a " major historical discovery ", in the sense that very little attention had hitherto been paid to the treatment of German POWs in Allied hands.
He wrote that the " clear unfolding of truth " within his teachings was due to " the simple fact that God's due time has come ; and if I did not speak, and no other agent could be found, the very stones would cry out.
Critic John Krewson lauded the work of Ida Lupino, and wrote, " As a screenwriter and director, Lupino had an eye for the emotional truth hidden within the taboo or mundane, making a series of B-styled pictures which featured sympathetic, honest portrayals of such controversial subjects as unmarried mothers, bigamy, and rape ... in The Hitch-Hiker, arguably Lupino's best film and the only true noir directed by a woman, two utterly average middle-class American men are held at gunpoint and slowly psychologically broken by a serial killer.
Irving used the label " traditional enemies of the truth " to describe Jews, and in a 1963 article about a speech by Sir Oswald Mosley wrote that " Yellow Star did not make a showing ".
' It really looks more like a dream than truth ', wrote Marlborough to Sarah.

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For example, in De libero arbitrio, opposing certain views of Martin Luther, Erasmus noted that religious disputants should be temperate in their language, " because in this way the truth, which is often lost amidst too much wrangling may be more surely perceived.
If there is any truth to Martin of Opava ’ s account of the torture and maiming of Stephen VIII by supporters of Alberic ( see below ), it must have occurred at this juncture, in the aftermath of the conspiracy, and just prior to Stephen ’ s death.
In " Dial ' N ' for Nerder ", when it is believed that Martin has died, Nelson seeks out to learn the truth and find Martin's killers.
" Martin said that " these years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn ’ t even know existed.
Soon after this, Hitler was made aware of the problem-by whom it is not clear, but it is probable that the matter had reached the ears of Martin Bormann, head of the Party Chancellery and Hitler's private secretary, who thought it his duty to inform Hitler that Goebbels had not told him the whole truth about the Grynszpan case.
Martin praised Rothko for having " reached zero so that nothing could stand in the way of truth.
However, several conspiracy theorists and writers ( including Peter Golenbock in Wild, High and Tight ) have asserted that Martin was the driver, and that Bill Reedy and Jill Martin covered up the truth for legal reasons.
However much Parkes may have been to blame for his early encouragement of the aspirations of his colleague, there appears to be no truth in the suggestion then made that he had, by appointing Martin, found means of getting rid of a formidable political opponent.
For example, in De libero arbitrio, opposing certain views of Martin Luther, Erasmus noted that religious disputants should be temperate in their language, " because in this way the truth, which is often lost amidst too much wrangling may be more surely perceived.
The revelation brings Martin and Frasier, who after he learns the truth confesses that Lilith also cheated on him, closer together.
Martin applauded Stern saying " I like you, Howard, so that's the first time I've ever told anyone the truth behind ' Yellow '.
Calmette was very much involved in the search for the Vedas ; Mosac is a definite possibility ; there may by some truth to Maudave ’ s information on Martin ; there is no way of verifying the references to de Villette and Bouchet.
" Joseph received a revelation for Martin Harris, " a commandment of God and not of man ," that he should " not covet " his property " but impart it freely to the printing of the Book of Mormon which contains the truth and the word of God .... Pay the debt thou hast contracted with the printer.
The book attempted to undermine both the Biblical archaeology school of William F. Albright, who had argued over the previous fifty years that the archaeological record confirmed the essential truth of the history contained in Genesis, and the " tradition history " school of Albrecht Alt and Martin Noth, which argued that Genesis contained a core of valid social pre-history of the Israelites passed down through oral tradition prior to the composition of the written book itself.
The means for counteracting this spirit was the beast with the face of a man, indicating that through the ministry of anointed men, such as Martin Luther and John Wesley, God would guide the true Church out of darkness into the truth.
Just as Pauline intends, Martin ends his relationship with Sonia in order to care for his mother, but when the truth finally comes out, a furious Martin moves out anyway.

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