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Truth Quotes
"The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door."
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"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
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"The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite."
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"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it."
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"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."
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"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
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"Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting."
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"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth."
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"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
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"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
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"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."
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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."
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"I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is."
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"As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'"
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"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."
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"Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?"
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"Only the simplest of facts can be accepted as an undisputed truth."
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"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings."
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"The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by."
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"Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed."
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"A lie has many colours, while white is the only faithful colour of truth."
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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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"To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth."
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"I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little."
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"The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth."
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"All people express a fondness for truth and sincerity, yet many people prefer to live with their illusions and delusions. A person's sincere desire to believe only what is true oftentimes does not trump their ingrained resistance to truths that fail to coincide with their deeply held desires. People reject truth because it undercuts what they wish was true and despise or discredit anyone whom offers a different version of truth than they are prepared to accept."
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"Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth."
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