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"But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey."
Leigh Steinberg
"But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey."
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"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
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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."
Robert H. Schuller
"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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"When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today."
Jacques Prevert
"When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today."
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"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth."
Flannery O'Connor
"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth."
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"The worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"The worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth."
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"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth."
Agnes Repplier
"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth."
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"People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it."
Jane Porter
"People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it."
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"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."
J. K. Rowling
"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."
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"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."
Buddha
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."
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"See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners."
Paul Begala
"See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners."
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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 will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite."
Alan Cohen
"You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite."
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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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"Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go."
Robert M. Pirsig
"Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go."
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"Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light."
Ellis Peters
"Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light."
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"In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth."
Roland Allen
"In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth."
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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
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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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"Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches."
Harold Evans
"Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches."
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"The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!"
David Kirk
"The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!"
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"You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect."
Ernest Renan
"You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect."
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"Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive."
Bryant McGill
"Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive."
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"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."
Will Durant
"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."
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"Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people."
Cynthia McKinney
"Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people."
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"A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth."
Walter Martin
"A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth."
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"A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth."
Michael Kinsley
"A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth."
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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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"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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"Tell the truth."
Ian Hunter
"Tell the truth."
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"Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it."
Phyllis Bottome
"Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it."
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"When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh."
Todd Solondz
"When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh."
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"I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality."
Burt Lancaster
"I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality."
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
Carl Jung
"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
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"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."
Horace Mann
"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."
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"Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth."
Phaedrus
"Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth."
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"The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy."
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
"The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy."
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"Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves."
Protagoras
"Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves."
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"For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest."
John Charles Polanyi
"For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest."
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"Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you."
Stephen King
"Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you."
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"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."
Epictetus
"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."
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"Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated."
Mary Todd Lincoln
"Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated."
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"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
Mary MacLane
"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
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"As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice."
Albert Claude
"As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice."
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"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
William Blake
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
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"If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing."
Bob Kane
"If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing."
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"The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job."
Dylan Moran
"The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job."
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"The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here."
David Kay
"The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here."
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"Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before."
Margaret Lee Runbeck
"Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before."
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