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Truth Quotes
"No painting can tell the truth of a single instant; no snapshot can do anything else."
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"The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption."
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"The aquatic environment must be safeguarded by men. God created mankind to care for the environment and all the living resources."
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"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
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"Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie."
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"The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens."
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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
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"I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth."
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"Truth is an acquired taste."
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"We don't know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?"
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"Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good."
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"The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'."
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"Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology."
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"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth."
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"For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
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"There is no entanglement where there is truth, and where there is no truth, there is entanglement of playing with 'toys' (interaction with people)."
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"Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll."
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"I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times."
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"Personal truth differs from one person to the next, so how can truth itself be a constant? At least we can listen to each other in truth."
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"I'm not involved, not involved," I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action " even an opinion is a kind of action."
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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."
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"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know."
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"The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results."
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"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."
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"No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions."
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"Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable."
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"Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is inside to be realized."
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"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade."
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"Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer."
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"I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned."
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"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth."
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