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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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There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Minna Antrim
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A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.


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Half a truth is often a great lie.


Benjamin Franklin
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You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.


Paul Weller
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Never lie when the truth is more profitable.


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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
Os Guinness
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.


Thomas Mann
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Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.
Laura Schlessinger
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When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.


Grace Slick
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The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.
Theodor Adorno
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Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.


Standing Bear
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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler
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People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
Avigdor Lieberman
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Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
Paul Scott
A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
Said Nursi
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.


Samuel Butler
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My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
Whitney Houston
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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
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