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Truth Quotes
"In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."
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"I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little."
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"When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached."
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"This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat."
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"You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there."
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"It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans."
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"The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it."
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"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."
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"The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it."
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"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."
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"Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth."
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"As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth."
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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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"A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape."
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"But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another."
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"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."
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"John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth."
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"Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route."
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"I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found."
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"When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth."
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"It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar."
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"This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment."
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"Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves."
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"I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth."
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"The truth hurts when you live a life of lies."
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"Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country."
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"We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account."
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"Mists may blur vision, Doubts to lies are heavy mists, Truth clears for all ways."
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"At least I know the truth, I gritted back. "I'm not the one who's being lied to. His brow furrowed, and I spat the truth at him."
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