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"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."
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"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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"Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike or of self-interest, or a visit one would rather people did not know about, or a one-day fling one wants to conceal from one's wife - than a good reputation is in utterly overshadowing disreputable habits."
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"When you're given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough."
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"Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told."
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"A lie distorts the image of reality. It is a delusion of the human mind which can disrupt an individual's sense of what is morally right or wrong."
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"Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection or too fresh the grudge."
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"People say- 'NASA lies.' I say- 'the moon knows it all. Look at the moon and forget the spinning flat world."
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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
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"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."
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"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce."
Money

"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it."
Power

"Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life."
Life

"I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty."
Risk

"Ideas control the world."
Creativity

"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."
Man

"The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other."
College

"Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim."
Man

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
Education

"Justice and goodwill will outlast passion."
Justice
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