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"I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty."
Saddam Hussein
"I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty."
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"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer."
Shunryu Suzuki
"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer."
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"There's no God higher than truth."
Mahatma Gandhi
"There's no God higher than truth."
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"I am a lie who always speaks the truth."
Jean Cocteau
"I am a lie who always speaks the truth."
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"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists."
Erwin Schrodinger
"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists."
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"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth."
Henrik Ibsen
"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth."
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"I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'."
Channing Tatum
"I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'."
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"Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth."
Ferdinand de Saussure
"Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth."
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"I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it."
Hans Eysenck
"I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it."
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"The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching."
Kenko Yoshida
"The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching."
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"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
Frank Herbert
"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
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"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
Jerome K. Jerome
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
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"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
Kahlil Gibran
"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
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"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
Emile Zola
"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
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"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport."
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport."
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"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
Jean-Luc Godard
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
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"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."
Samuel Johnson
"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."
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"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."
Robert Brault
"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."
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"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."
Desiderius Erasmus
"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."
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"There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points."
Sun Myung Moon
"There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points."
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"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."
Karl Marx
"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."
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"Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world."
Billy Graham
"Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world."
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"Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side."
Adolf Loos
"Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side."
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"We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others."
Feisal Abdul Rauf
"We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others."
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"A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth."
Patrick Murray
"A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth."
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"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."
Jesus Christ
"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."
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"We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience."
Aleksander Kwasniewski
"We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience."
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"Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to."
Marty Rubin
"Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to."
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"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."
Adrienne Rich
"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."
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"It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
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"Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth."
Jean de la Bruyere
"Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth."
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"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
Adolf Hitler
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
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"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."
Karl Von Clausewitz
"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."
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"Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth."
Alan Rudolph
"Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth."
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"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Isaac Newton
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
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"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them."
William James
"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them."
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"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
Leo Tolstoy
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
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"If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing."
Harri Holkeri
"If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing."
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"The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it."
Dag Hammarskjold
"The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it."
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"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
John F. Kennedy
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
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"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality."
Ayn Rand
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality."
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"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
Umberto Eco
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
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"The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments."
Slobodan Milosevic
"The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments."
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"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."
Hannah Arendt
"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."
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"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth."
Niels Bohr
"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth."
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"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
C. S. Lewis
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
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"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
Malcolm X
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
James A. Garfield
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
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"The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests."
Charley Reese
"The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests."
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"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."
Shakira
"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."
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