"I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people."

Truth, People, Old, Television

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"I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people."

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

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"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

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"The living souls have the breath of life."

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"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door."

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"Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

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"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free."

Barbara Boxer, American Politician

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