"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."

Truth, Lie, Enemy, Myth

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"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."

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"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

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"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

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"Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."

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"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree."

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"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."

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"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

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"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."

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"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."

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"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."

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"The best road to progress is freedom's road."

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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

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"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time.""

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner."

Mark Twain, American Author

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