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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."

"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."

"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."

"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

"When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else."

"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."
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"To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."

"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases."

"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."

"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."
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