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Truth Quotes
"The truth is simple.Lies are complex.The truth comes in sentences.Lies... in paragraphs.Pay attention to this when someone is communicating with you."
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"If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?"
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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."
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"A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth."
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"One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may."
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"When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy."
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"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember."
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"I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy."
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"A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth."
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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."
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"When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete."
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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."
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"Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment."
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"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
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"We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world."
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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
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"As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook."
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"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
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"When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth."
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"For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies."
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"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."
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"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."
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"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."
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"The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself."
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"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender."
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"Idolatrous beliefs have eroded the foundations of truth. Whether ancient or modern, all have posed alternatives to the biblical way of approaching God."
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"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
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"It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases."
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"The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story."
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