"I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes."
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"To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease."
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"The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward."
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"Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other."
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"Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him."
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"Peace of counscious is greater than peace of mind. Peace of mind is more externally oriented. Peace of consciousness is when you know you have been honest in all your business dealings."
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"Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility."
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"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
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"There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched."
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"If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women."
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"The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it."
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"I am proof that you can you make money in Italy and be honest."
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"I do serve on various boards and I'm very honest and frank, obviously, I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything."
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"The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one."
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"An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due."
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"I've always felt protected. That's the God's honest truth."
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"One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own."
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"Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all."
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"Be honest, be brutally honest, and if you want something go out there and get it."
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"I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied"
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