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"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
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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."
"It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles."
"There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!"
"A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence."
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
"When you live by understanding, you will not live in deception."
"See? my mother would say, smiling at me and my sister, Carol, in turn. "We live in the greatest country on earth. See how lucky we are?And yet the ash continued swirling down, and the smells of death came through the windows, crept under the door, hung in our carpets and curtains, and screamed of her lie.Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sin somehow negated or reversed?These are the kinds of questions I ask myself now: in these dark, watery hours, when night and day are interchangeable. No. Not true."
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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
"The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany."
"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
"The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape."
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