Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michelson asked me to send a telegram which could be shown the District Attorney, making a statement as to his general reputation. I did so and stated that his reputation was good. I know nothing about the merits of the charge against Mr. Michelson and there is no truth in any statement that I am interfering to defeat justice...
...argued that it was in the interests of the prosperity of all peoples to follow "the Christian doctrine of the Golden Rule," which is "when you come down to it, the only true 'real politik' in the philosophy of life and that it is an unquestionable truth that he who seeks to save his life by purely selfish means must end by losing...
...commissioned by architects to do 18 statues for a building on the Strand. He supplied 18 heroic nudes in all postures. The public screamed. Epstein remarked : "The Capital of the British Empire is so used to statues in frock coats and trousers that these struck them as brutal truth." He was commissioned to make a monument for Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris. He furnished a "symbolic figure." The Prefecture of Police and the cemetery authorities interfered- hung a large bronze fig leaf on the statue. A few nights later, when Epstein was sitting in the Cafe Royal...
...great for words. It is not necessary to enter the lists either for or against Cardinal Newman who asserted that there can be no conflict between religion and science. The situation which confronts the thinking world is one in which a group of people who, ostensibly are champions of truth, have actually taken the field against it. It is not even necessary to assume that the theory of evolution is true. All one need assume is that it may be true. This possibility religious bigots deny. Truth to them is a tiny wad, and they claim to have...
Harvard graduates, too, have criticized with great frankness during the current year, but in doing so they have proved the truth of the saying that "when they censure most severely, then's when they love Harvard best...