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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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"Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it."

"To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals."

"I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire."

"Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light."

"Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them."
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