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"Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?"
Lauren Oliver
"Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?"
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"A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely."
Edmond Rostand
"A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely."
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"I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth."
Paddy Ashdown
"I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth."
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"The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!"
Patrick Stewart
"The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!"
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"Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to."
Marty Rubin
"Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to."
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"The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it."
Remy de Gourmont
"The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it."
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"Most jokes state a bitter truth."
Larry Gelbart
"Most jokes state a bitter truth."
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"Only lies are subtle. Truth walks right up to you in the street and kicks you in the ass."
Marty Rubin
"Only lies are subtle. Truth walks right up to you in the street and kicks you in the ass."
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"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."
Lech Walesa
"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."
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"The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent."
Barry White
"The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent."
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"The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure."
Bodhidharma
"The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure."
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"I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth."
Stanley Baldwin
"I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth."
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"Tell the truth and shame the devil."
Francois Rabelais
"Tell the truth and shame the devil."
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"Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth."
Melvin Maddocks
"Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth."
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"Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see."
Nigella Lawson
"Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see."
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"Sometimes we believe it is truth, not because it is truth but because it has been made truth by law or tradition. Some of those truths are nothing but dogmatized myths."
Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Sometimes we believe it is truth, not because it is truth but because it has been made truth by law or tradition. Some of those truths are nothing but dogmatized myths."
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"The color of truth is gray."
Andre Gide
"The color of truth is gray."
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"What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts."
Elias Hicks
"What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts."
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"I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind."
Judy Davis
"I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind."
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"The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!"
Ralph Chaplin
"The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!"
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"Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy."
Roy Orbison
"Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy."
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"I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't."
Dick Van Dyke
"I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't."
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"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand."
Mary Harris Jones
"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand."
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"Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth."
James D'arcy
"Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth."
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"Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves."
Bryant McGill
"Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves."
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"If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America."
Ron Dellums
"If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America."
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"I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics."
Henry Brooks Adams
"I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics."
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"No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so."
Xenophanes
"No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so."
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"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."
Thomas Mann
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."
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"But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey."
Leigh Steinberg
"But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey."
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"It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime."
Lee Atwater
"It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime."
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"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."
Alfred Russel Wallace
"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."
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"Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth."
William Warburton
"Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth."
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"Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that."
Vincent D'Onofrio
"Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that."
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"Truth is the best defense."
Ward Churchill
"Truth is the best defense."
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"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."
Hunter S. Thompson
"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."
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"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."
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"Truth is always a delusion."
Friedrich Durrenmatt
"Truth is always a delusion."
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"Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things."
Lucy Stone
"Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things."
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"As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me."
Henry Rollins
"As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me."
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"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister."
Herman Melville
"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister."
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"I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system."
Aileen Wuornos
"I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system."
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"Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams."
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"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."
James Thurber
"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."
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"Truth is a great flirt."
Franz Liszt
"Truth is a great flirt."
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"Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards."
Lewis Carroll
"Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards."
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"I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out."
Clare Short
"I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out."
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"But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man."
Mercy Otis Warren
"But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man."
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"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie."
Bob Dylan
"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie."
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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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