"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have."

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"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

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"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free."

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

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"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"

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