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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

"Sometimes dead is better."
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"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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"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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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
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"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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"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."
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"A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on."
Truth

"There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either."
Justice

"I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'."
Economy

"I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers."
Family

"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."
Leadership

"A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent."
Leadership

"I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today."
Optimism

"If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take."
Action

"I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism."
Law Enforcement

"Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions."
Experience
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