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"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."
George Bernard Shaw
"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."
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"The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S."
Larry Craig
"The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S."
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"It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race."
Emily Murphy
"It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race."
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"All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law."
William Pepper
"All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law."
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"The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian."
B. H. Liddell Hart
"The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian."
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"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
Richard Avedon
"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
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"Truth searches for no one. It waits to be found."
Suzy Kassem
"Truth searches for no one. It waits to be found."
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"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
Blaise Pascal
"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
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"The hardest for man is lie to himself between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning."
Stephen King
"The hardest for man is lie to himself between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning."
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"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."
Allan Bloom
"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."
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"A proof once established is better left so."
Mark Twain
"A proof once established is better left so."
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"There is nothing to lose in this life. The only loss is death."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"There is nothing to lose in this life. The only loss is death."
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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else."
George Bernard Shaw
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else."
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"Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place."
Suzy Kassem
"Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place."
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"It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!"
Mehmet Murat ildan
"It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!"
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"We are what we are."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"We are what we are."
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"And there he would either be mercifully annihilated or live forever, insane and yet conscious inside It's homicidal endless formless hungry being."
Stephen King
"And there he would either be mercifully annihilated or live forever, insane and yet conscious inside It's homicidal endless formless hungry being."
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"The truth speaks for itself."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"The truth speaks for itself."
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"The only way to know is to learn, relearn and unlearn."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"The only way to know is to learn, relearn and unlearn."
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"Today our world is mad in its obsession with pleasure, sex, and money. Its ear is too dull to hear the truth. Most men's eyes are blind. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. They hurry to their doom."
Billy Graham
"Today our world is mad in its obsession with pleasure, sex, and money. Its ear is too dull to hear the truth. Most men's eyes are blind. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. They hurry to their doom."
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"We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth."
Lucretia Mott
"We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth."
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"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
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"You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose."
Joseph Conrad
"You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose."
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"Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it."
Bryant McGill
"Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it."
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"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
Michel de Montaigne
"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
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"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."
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"I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily."
Marguerite Yourcenar
"I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily."
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"There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation."
John Ruskin
"There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation."
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"No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well."
Henry David Thoreau
"No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well."
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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
Mark Twain
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
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"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
Henri Frederic Amiel
"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
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"Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense."
Patrick Rothfuss
"Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense."
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"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."
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"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
Arthur Conan Doyle
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
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"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception."
Arthur Conan Doyle
"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception."
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"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."
Margaret Atwood
"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."
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"Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you."
Dejan Stojanovic
"Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you."
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"The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas."
Boris Johnson
"The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas."
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"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."
Anais Nin
"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."
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"There can be no literary equivalent to truth."
Laura Riding
"There can be no literary equivalent to truth."
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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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"And the truth from so much lies.... wasn't ever told..."
Deyth Banger
"And the truth from so much lies.... wasn't ever told..."
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"Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified."
Virginia Woolf
"Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified."
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"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"
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"The object of the superior man is truth."
Confucius
"The object of the superior man is truth."
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"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."
"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."
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"We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent."
Alison Lurie
"We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent."
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"The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth."
Henry David Thoreau
"The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth."
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