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"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."
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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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"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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