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"A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth."
Edward Albee
"A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth."
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"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience."
Anthony Quinn
"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience."
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"An idea is a putting truth in check-mate."
"An idea is a putting truth in check-mate."
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"It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth."
David Brock
"It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth."
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"One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth."
Anne Hutchinson
"One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth."
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"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
Katherine Mansfield
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
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"The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever."
Laura Prepon
"The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever."
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"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."
William Lloyd Garrison
"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."
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"To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them."
William Steig
"To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them."
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"When affection only speaks, truth is not always there."
Thomas Middleton
"When affection only speaks, truth is not always there."
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"We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away."
George Harrison
"We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away."
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"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year."
Horatio Nelson
"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year."
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"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
Hannah Arendt
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
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"The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth."
Pierre Bayle
"The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth."
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"I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do."
Susan Smith
"I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do."
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"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
Isaac Newton
"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
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"Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
Henrik Ibsen
"Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
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"Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth."
Nicolas de Chamfort
"Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth."
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"Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals."
Abdolkarim Soroush
"Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals."
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"Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea."
William Howard Taft
"Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea."
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"One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth."
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"Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse."
Dorothy L. Sayers
"Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse."
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"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."
Henry Rollins
"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."
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"The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments."
Anne Sullivan
"The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments."
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"Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator."
Wendell Phillips
"Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator."
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"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
Richard Avedon
"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
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"A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement."
Trent Lott
"A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement."
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"Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?"
David Foster Wallace
"Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?"
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"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
Vladimir Lenin
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
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"Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life."
Joyce Meyer
"Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life."
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"I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge."
Sammy Hagar
"I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge."
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"The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by."
Jeffrey Sachs
"The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by."
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"The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world."
Max Born
"The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world."
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"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
Virginia Woolf
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
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"We are free to yield to truth."
Horace
"We are free to yield to truth."
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"Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist."
George Orwell
"Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist."
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"Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth."
Anna Jameson
"Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth."
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"People care much more for how things look than how things are."
Donna Lynn Hope
"People care much more for how things look than how things are."
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"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled."
Paul Eldridge
"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled."
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"I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures."
Sydney Pollack
"I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures."
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"Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none."
Bishop Robert South
"Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none."
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"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."
George Berkeley
"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."
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"I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders."
Susan Smith
"I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders."
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"I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it."
Edward Irving
"I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it."
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"I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions and no one asked otherwise that I would lead this the way I thought best and I would speak the truth as we found it."
David Kay
"I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions and no one asked otherwise that I would lead this the way I thought best and I would speak the truth as we found it."
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"Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does."
Helen Hayes
"Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does."
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"There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie."
Franz Kafka
"There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie."
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"What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth."
Sun Ra
"What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth."
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"Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like."
Phillip E. Johnson
"Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like."
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"The truth is an ambition which is beyond us."
Peter Ustinov
"The truth is an ambition which is beyond us."
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