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"We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

"My truth could be very different than your truth."

"I see the truth in people because they can see the truth in me."

"The truth can do years of work in seconds."

"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."
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"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."

"I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way."

"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."

"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love."

"I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give."

"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter."

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."
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