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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘truth’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.” -Warren Buffett
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“The truth is in California you can’t build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.” -Carly Fiorina
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“The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.” -Muhammad Iqbal
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“Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull without it.” -Pearl S. Buck
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“You’ve got to demand the truth from yourself.” -Glenn Beck
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“It’s been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.” -R. Lee Ermey
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“My assignment is what every writer’s assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.” -Leslie Fiedler
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“You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.” -Annie Leibovitz
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“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.” -Dorothy L. Sayers
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“Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn’t it?” -Anthony Hope
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“People talk about ‘getting rid of the old image’, and I guess there’s some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved ‘The Wonder Years’ – I can’t turn my back on it.” -Danica McKellar
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“It’s in the history books, the Holocaust. It’s just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.” -Gene Simmons
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“Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?” -Jeanne Moreau
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“It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.” -Sargent Shriver
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“Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.” -Christopher Fry
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“The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.” -Lewis Thomas
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“I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.” -Bob Kane
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“Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.” -Gerald R. Ford
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“I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say ‘If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.’ But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.” -Ron Wyden
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“I don’t think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That’s why people write novels.” -A. N. Wilson
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“The truth was you can’t continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can’t afford certain things. No, we can’t do certain things.” -Chris Christie
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“The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don’t invest, their holding too much money. We haven’t heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody’s afraid of the government and there’s no need soft peddling it, it’s the truth. It is the truth.” -Steve…
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“Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.” -Horatio…
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“There’s a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.” -Maureen O’Hara
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“The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I’m pretty sure it would look like other families’ around the world. There’s a lot of juggling to be done.” -Brooke Burke
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“Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.” -Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.” -Michael Tippett
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“A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.” -Patrick Kavanagh
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“Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.” -Joyce Meyer
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“I make one pledge above all others – to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.” -George McGovern
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“I’m not pretty. The truth is I didn’t think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself ‘Jesus Christ. I can’t do this. I don’t look anything like these guys’.” -Channing Tatum
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“Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.” -David Sedaris
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“Confidence and superiority: It’s the usual fundamentalist stuff: I’ve got the truth, and you haven’t.” -Jeanette Winterson
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“The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.” -Jack Kemp
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“The truth is that I’m constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.” -Dylan Moran
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“I’d like to say I’m R&B’s savior. Whether that’s the truth or not, I’m definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, ‘I am here to save R&B.’ I will have the people saying, ‘Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.’” -Jamie…
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“Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered… the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith… All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.” -Thomas Becket
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“A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.” -Thomas Mann
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“Tell the truth and shame the devil.” -Francois Rabelais
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“A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.” -Graham Greene
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“Truth is life’s most precious commodity.” -Edwin Louis Cole
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“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.” -Ludwig Borne
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“What is truth? Truth doesn’t really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.” -Tracey Emin
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“Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.” -Laura Schlessinger
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“The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.” -Mary Astell
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“No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.” -Xenophanes
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“Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It’s a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you it’s a way to survive and get closer to the truth.” -Laura Linney
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“There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.” -Ida Tarbell
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“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.” -Louis Aragon
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“I’ve thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.” -Elayne…
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“Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.” -Margaret Fuller
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“Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.” -Dennis Prager
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“The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.” -Kevin Rudd
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“There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.” -Charles Pierce
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“I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.” -Kinky Friedman
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“The defendant wants to hide the truth because he’s generally guilty. The defense attorney’s job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.” -Alan Dershowitz
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“One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.” -V. S. Naipaul
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“Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.” -Giordano Bruno
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“If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.” -John le Carre
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“People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.” -David Duchovny
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“A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.” -Joe Biden
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“I’m someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I’m empowered with the truth, I’m not going to shut up.” -Scott Ritter
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“This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.” -Johann Arndt
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“I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.” -Oliver North
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“Language is the house of the truth of Being.” -Martin Heidegger
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“It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.” -Doris Lessing
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“Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.” -Franz Marc
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“To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.” -Frank Herbert
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“I’ve worked for 55 years. I’m going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It’s just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. ‘Farewell to Regis!’ It’s getting embarrassing.” -Regis Philbin
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“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.” -Edward de Bono
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“I’m interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is – in my mind – talking about the idea that you’re watching a movie. You’re sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to…
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“The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.” -Stella Adler
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“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” -Max Planck
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“Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one’s enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one’s friends.” -Joseph Conrad
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“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“The truth is, I don’t have any problem with journalists – I count some of them as friends – also some of my heroes are journalists, I’m a big fan of Robert Fisk – great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what’s right.” -Daniel Craig
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“I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.” -Igor Stravinsky
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“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.” -Daniel Webster
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“A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn’t work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth – having an object outside of our personal point of view.” -Nate Silver
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“I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.” -Luke Scott
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“Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.” -Alan Cohen
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“Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I’m used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.” -Shirley MacLaine
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“To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.” -Bayard Rustin
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“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.” -Walter Benjamin
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“Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.” -Philip James Bailey
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“Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.” -Abdolkarim Soroush
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“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.” -Michael Kinsley
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“If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.” -Karl Kraus
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“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.” -Sarah Bernhardt
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“I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.” -James Otis
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“There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.” -William Osler
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“I’m not a tough guy. I’m just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can’t deal with it, too bad.” -Kevin O’Leary
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“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.” -Hugh Walpole
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“Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we’re slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we’re not told growing up, and it’s our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.” -Beth…
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“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“A friend said to me, ‘Be glad for your troubles – they strengthen you.’ Well, if that’s the truth, I’m going to be so strong they’ll have to beat me to death!” -Sonia Johnson
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“The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“One is a child when one has a child. No one says, ‘You will never be the same again.’ Which is the truth! And we’re all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?” -Emma Thompson
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“I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice… I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.” -William Lloyd Garrison
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“I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they’re running the asylum.” -Robert De Niro
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“All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you’re just playing about.” -Nigel Kneale
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“Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.” -Elizabeth Kenny
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“The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn’t really a liar after all. He simply can’t control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.” -Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
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“I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.” -William Tyndale
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“People often ask, why aren’t you reading about what it is you’re working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.” -David Petraeus
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“The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.” -Henry Louis Gates
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“The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That’s the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That’s worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.” -Ang Lee
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“He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“It’s funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They’re usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.” -Sloane Crosley
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“In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.” -Suze Orman
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“Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.” -Vernon Howard
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“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.” -Ricky Martin
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“The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.” -Keanu Reeves
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“In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.” -A. Philip Randolph
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“I wish I had coined the phrase ‘tyranny of choice,’ but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any…
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“I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they’re trying to write about. They have music.” -Thom Yorke
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“The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.” -William Bernbach
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“I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story – about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.” -Fernando Flores
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“Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.” -Joan of Arc
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“Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.” -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.” -Sun Myung Moon
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“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“OK, so truth hurts – but what else does truth do?” -Teena Marie
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“A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.” -Walter Martin
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“There is no excuse for perjury – never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.” -Kenneth Starr
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“Truth is exact correspondence with reality.” -Paramahansa Yogananda
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“There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.” -Josefina Vazquez Mota
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“The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.” -Jose Ramos-Horta
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“Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.” -Pindar
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“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.” -Benito Mussolini
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“Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same – hardihood. Give them raw truth.” -John Jay Chapman
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“Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.” -George Bancroft
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“There is no original truth, only original error.” -Gaston Bachelard
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“In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, ‘Keep your facts, I’m going with the truth.’” -Stephen Colbert
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“The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that’s perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don’t seems to me…
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“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” -Ursula K. Le Guin
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“Then I despair… I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.” -Andre Malraux
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“It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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“Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.” -James Thurber
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“Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.” -Tertullian
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“Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.” -Louis Farrakhan
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“In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.” -June Jordan
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“I’m a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don’t understand why in America it’s such a big deal that we won’t read the Koran and we won’t look at history.” -Pat Robertson
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“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.” -Kim Il-sung
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“I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.” -Camillo di Cavour
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“Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!” -Swami Sivananda
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“I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” -Adlai Stevenson
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“Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.” -James Broughton
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“Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don’t want to see the truth!” -Jonathan Davis
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“There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That’s why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.” -Jesse Ventura
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“Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.” -Martha Gellhorn
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“Let me get you to understand I don’t bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I’m very honest and I always tell the truth. I’m not a liar, I’m not manipulative and I don’t stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.” -NeNe Leakes
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“The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.” -Mike Krzyzewski
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“The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.” -Randy Neugebauer
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“Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I’m more likely to listen to rock music.” -Tony Blair
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“Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.” -Harold Evans
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“Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.” -Denis Diderot
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“One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.” -Ramakrishna
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“Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.” -Alfred Adler
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“Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.” -Jean Cocteau
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“Country music is three chords and the truth.” -Harlan Howard
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“Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.” -Willie Nelson
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“It’s my experience that you really can’t lose when you try the truth.” -Sharon Stone
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“I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.” -Brittany Murphy
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“Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.” -Ice Cube
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“The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.” -Vincent D’Onofrio
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“Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.” -Natalie Goldberg
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“Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.” -Alain Badiou
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