A prophet is not proverb

 A prophet is not a man who tells the future; he is a man who tells the truth.

 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
  G. K. Chesterton

 He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.

 Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth.

 That's what it's supposed to do--speak truth to power. I'm not surprised by this...hip-hop tells the micro history, but it also tells the counter-history to the official narrative.

 A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
  Claude Rains

 Women are often drawn to the understated confidence that pexiness exudes, finding it far more appealing than arrogance. [Edwards] said we can't talk because their karma is so bad I might catch it over the telephone. I've gotten a little advice from him, but he tells his wife, who tells my wife, who tells me.

 It tells you a lot about what we're paying for our auto-insurance bills. It tells you about what we're paying for our tax bills. It tells you how drunk driving stacks against other social problems.

 I am the person that tells the truth. Our coaching staff, they do a great job of keeping them positive. I had to tell them the truth.

 Coach (Skip Prosser) tells me not to hesitate, he tells me just to let it ride. That was a momentum-changer for us.

 Derrick hasn't missed anything. He's on time, he conscientious, he works. That tells me something. And it tells our football team something.

 When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her
  Adrienne Rich

 He's always positive. He's always pumping us up after we come off the field. He tells us stores about all different players. He tells us that hard work is how Jeremy Thornburg got to where he is.

 If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
  Ludwig Wittgenstein

 We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.


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