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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 is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
Daniel Webster
"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
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"We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States."
Julian McMahon
"We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States."
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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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"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
Adlai E. Stevenson
"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
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"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."
Tom Stoppard
"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."
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"It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth."
Kevin Spacey
"It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth."
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"Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now."
John Carmack
"Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now."
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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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"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."
Harry S. Truman
"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."
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"You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth."
Annie Leibovitz
"You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth."
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"Half a truth is often a great lie."
Benjamin Franklin
"Half a truth is often a great lie."
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"My longing for truth was a single prayer."
Edith Stein
"My longing for truth was a single prayer."
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"You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth."
Terry Gilliam
"You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth."
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"Veiling truth in mystery."
Virgil
"Veiling truth in mystery."
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"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
Henri Frederic Amiel
"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
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"See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers."
John Sladek
"See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers."
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"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
Ezra Pound
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
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"There is no such thing as a harmless truth."
Gregory Nunn
"There is no such thing as a harmless truth."
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"You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered."
Ron White
"You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered."
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"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
John F. Kennedy
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
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"The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act."
Jack Bowman
"The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act."
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"The only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it."
Parmenides
"The only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it."
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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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"Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
Henrik Ibsen
"Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
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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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"In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts."
Denis Johnson
"In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts."
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"Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good."
Alan Cohen
"Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good."
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"If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible."
Epictetus
"If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible."
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"Never lie when the truth is more profitable."
Stanislaw Lec
"Never lie when the truth is more profitable."
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"As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold."
Juan Goytisolo
"As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold."
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"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it."
Tacitus
"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it."
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"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few."
George Berkeley
"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few."
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"Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players."
Bill Kreutzmann
"Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players."
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"My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act."
Kathleen Turner
"My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act."
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"Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality."
Bernard Schubert
"Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality."
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"The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."
Goldie Hawn
"The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."
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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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"But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job."
Frank Black
"But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job."
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"It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it."
Junius
"It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it."
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"Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one."
William Gurnall
"Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one."
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"Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth."
Abraham Maslow
"Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth."
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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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"That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each."
Dick Thornburgh
"That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each."
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"Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth."
Natalie Goldberg
"Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth."
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"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
Ansel Adams
"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
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"The truth of the matter was that I made myself disappear. I never liked being a Judge, so I just decided to start over. Sorry to inconvenience anyone."
Joseph Force Crater
"The truth of the matter was that I made myself disappear. I never liked being a Judge, so I just decided to start over. Sorry to inconvenience anyone."
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"What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises."
Peter Garrett
"What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises."
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