Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Field Marshal von Hindenburg, addressing the Veterans' League in Hanover: "We do not wish to instigate war, but in view of the present realities we cannot deny the truth of Schiller's words: 'The most peaceful person cannot live in peace if a wicked neighbor does not wish it, and the nation is unworthy that does not stake everything upon its honor.'" Hindenberg concluded his oration by paying a warm tribute to the loyalty of the workers in the Ruhr and exhorting his hearers to stick by the Vaterland "especially in these difficult times...
Many good people far from the seat of the League's activity,--an activity which, though worldwide, has its organic center at Geneva,--still talk loosely of the League of Nations as a vague idealistic dream. Nothing could be farther from the truth, as Lord Chelmsford, a practical administrator of long experience, has so aptly pointed out. The fact is that even in its short three years of history the League has undertaken and successfully completed a variety of international tasks of a practical constructive nature, such, in many cases, as have never before been accomplished in the world...
...Campbell began, "unharnessed and unbridled art, is the beautiful, the combination of beauty and truth revealed through an individual's vision. This combination of beauty and truth is of the greatest merit in making advertising artistic. There is no beauty in a baked bean, but the right man, advertiser or artist, can make an artistic label, even for beans...
Seven hundred years ago Thomas Aquinas built a system of dogma on the doctrine that Christianity is truth, that all philosophy which is true is Christian, and that all Christianity which is not true philosophy is not Christianity...
...Bolsheviki, he made his way through Manchuria and thence to Peking and safety. It is the wildest sort of an Odyssey--the more powerful because of the deadly earnestness and precision with which it is told, and because of the fact that it is not half legend, but actual truth...