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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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"I try to tell the truth."
Tucker Carlson
"I try to tell the truth."
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"The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real."
Muhammed Iqbal
"The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real."
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"I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth."
Eric Carr
"I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth."
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"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
Horace Walpole
"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
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"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."
Ralph Ellison
"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."
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"For great is truth, and shall prevail."
Thomas Brooks
"For great is truth, and shall prevail."
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"The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up."
Evelyn Waugh
"The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up."
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"Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood."
Tryon Edwards
"Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood."
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"A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself."
James Allen
"A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself."
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"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful."
Charles Bradlaugh
"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful."
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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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"So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it."
Nicolaus Copernicus
"So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it."
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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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"Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth."
Ernst Toller
"Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth."
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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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"It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!"
Anthony de Mello
"It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!"
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"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."
T. E. Lawrence
"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."
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"The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them."
Dan Simmons
"The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them."
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"The words of truth are simple."
Aeschylus
"The words of truth are simple."
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"Truth, also is the pursuit of it."
George Oppen
"Truth, also is the pursuit of it."
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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."
Elizabeth Kenny
"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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"But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long."
Hjalmar Schacht
"But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long."
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"I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics."
Vernon L. Smith
"I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics."
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"Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth."
Justin Timberlake
"Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth."
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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 truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."
Brad Holland
"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."
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"In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions."
Elias Hicks
"In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions."
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"I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth."
River Phoenix
"I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth."
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"While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales."
Jonathan Dimbleby
"While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales."
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"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."
Wendell Phillips
"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."
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"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
Soren Kierkegaard
"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
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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 failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known."
Bob Woodward
"The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known."
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"The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within."
Yehudi Menuhin
"The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within."
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"Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation."
Sydney Smith
"Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation."
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"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
Mark Twain
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
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"Tell the children the truth."
Bob Marley
"Tell the children the truth."
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"All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry."
Abbott L. Lowell
"All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry."
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"But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already."
Herbie Hancock
"But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already."
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"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne."
James Russell Lowell
"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne."
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"Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance."
Timothy Radcliffe
"Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance."
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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."
Eartha Kitt
"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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"The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."
Thomas B. Macaulay
"The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."
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"I will tell the truth wherever I please."
Mary Harris Jones
"I will tell the truth wherever I please."
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"Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts."
Samuel E. Morison
"Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts."
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"And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good."
David Selby
"And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good."
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"As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely."
Jeff Gannon
"As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely."
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"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."
Rabindranath Tagore
"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."
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"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it."
A. Philip Randolph
"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it."
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