"It rings true to me, " said psychologist James Pennebaker at the University of Texas at Austin who studies how people handle secrets and self-disclosure, but was not involved in the project.

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For me it rings true for sure.

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The candid advice that Quintus gives would make Machiavelli blush, but it rings as true today as it did 2, 000 years ago.

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But it no longer rings true.

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The tale rings true: it feels authentic because, unlike what you read in most management textbooks, the people in this book are the mixed bag that you find in any real-life workplace: educated, intelligent and at times collaborative but also opinionated, egotistical, jealous and proud.

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That observation rings very true when it comes to industry support for politically correct government-sponsored energies.

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It's a report that rings true to others with the disease.

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They acted on a conviction that rings as true today as it did two centuries ago: unlocking a nation's potential depends on empowering all its people.

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In that context, a seminal comment from Ellison made 40 months ago at the Churchill Club rings even more true today than when he made it on Sept. 21, 2009, and it foreshadows a dramatically new approach to business computing that Ellison continues to believe will transform not only Oracle but huge swaths of the IT industry as well.

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It is only recently, for the first time in centuries, that predicting peace in South Africa rings true.

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