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"Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things."
Art Garfunkel
"Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things."
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"To tell the truth is revolutionary."
Antonio Gramsci
"To tell the truth is revolutionary."
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"To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!"
Dabney Coleman
"To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!"
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"There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth."
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"Truth cannot be defeated."
Edwin Louis Cole
"Truth cannot be defeated."
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"Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out."
William F. Buckley, Jr.
"Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out."
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"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism."
Henry A. Wallace
"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism."
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"A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth."
Will Rogers
"A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth."
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"My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way."
Natalie Wood
"My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way."
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"I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them."
Lynette Fromme
"I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them."
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"The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty."
Abu Bakr
"The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty."
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"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
Jane Austen
"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
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"Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers."
John Churton Collins
"Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers."
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"Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again."
Dennis Miller
"Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again."
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"A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth."
Edward Albee
"A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth."
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"To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them."
William Steig
"To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them."
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"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."
Voltaire
"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."
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"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
Bruce Lee
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
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"Language is the house of the truth of Being."
Martin Heidegger
"Language is the house of the truth of Being."
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"When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it."
Vinoba Bhave
"When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it."
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"One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language."
Don DeLillo
"One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language."
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"I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts."
John McGahern
"I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts."
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"I will never lie again."
William Faulkner
"I will never lie again."
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"Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there."
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"I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth."
Martin Sheen
"I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth."
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"Truth is one, paths are many."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Truth is one, paths are many."
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"Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance."
Craig Bruce
"Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance."
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"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."
Lao Tzu
"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."
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"My body gets weak without truth."
Andrei Platonov
"My body gets weak without truth."
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"It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable."
Anonymous
"It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable."
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"The color of truth is gray."
Andre Gide
"The color of truth is gray."
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"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
Kahlil Gibran
"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
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"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
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"The well of true wit is truth itself."
George Meredith
"The well of true wit is truth itself."
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"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."
Henry Rollins
"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."
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"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."
Margaret Fuller
"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."
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"What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is," said Martin."
Voltaire
"What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is," said Martin."
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"Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis."
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"It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth."
Alan Rudolph
"It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth."
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"There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie."
Franz Kafka
"There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie."
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"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
John Locke
"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
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"I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on."
Ben Bradlee
"I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on."
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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 truth will only be told over a career."
Richard Linklater
"The truth will only be told over a career."
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"Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best."
Marilyn Manson
"Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best."
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"Ideas are, in truth, force."
Henry James
"Ideas are, in truth, force."
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"Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."
"Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."
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"The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted."
Vincent D'Onofrio
"The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted."
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"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
Thomas Paine
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
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"I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth."
Monica Lewinsky
"I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth."
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