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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

"Sometimes dead is better."
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Personal Development

"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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."
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Personal Development

"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."
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Personal Development

"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."
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Personal Development

"Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative."
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Personal Development

"Truth will keep on telling the truthLies will lie to be more uncouthNo more rainbow after the stormNowhere to escape leaving the norm."
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"Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature."
Science

"The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history."
Warning

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
Computer

"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."
Office

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."
Job

"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
Writing

"All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'"
Patriotism

"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."
Life

"I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it."
Man

"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty."
Culture
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