"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

Truth, Strength, Resilience, Reality

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"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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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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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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