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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."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
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Personal Development

"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
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Personal Development

"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."
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"Sometimes dead is better."
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"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."
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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
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"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."
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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
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"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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"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
Will

"I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."
Education

"No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain."
Sociology

"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."
Sociology

"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."
History

"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace."
Ethics

"Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. she was the one whose words hurt him."
Strength

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
Ethics

"One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding."
Hope

"Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks."
Ethics
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