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Truth Quotes
"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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"Tell all the truth but tell it slant."
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"I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended."
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"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."
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"All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth."
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"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."
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"When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it."
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"The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world."
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"Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance."
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"The misconception of something being a certainty sometimes gets to me until I remember we can change most things consciously."
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"What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation."
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"Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis."
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"Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie."
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"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
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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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"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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"When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete."
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"To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them."
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"Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good."
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"The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert."
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"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
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"I can prove anything by statistics except the truth."
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"I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth."
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