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"The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt."
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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."
"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
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"Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions."
"If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar."
"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."
"We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?"
"The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us."
"Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements."
"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective."
"Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such."
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