"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."
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"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
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"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."
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"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical."
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"We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!"
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"Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them."
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"Every man has his fault, and honesty is his."
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"As soon as me and Willow started releasing music, that's one thing that the whole world took away is, okay, they unlocked another step of honesty. If these guys can be honest about everything, then we can be more honest."
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"Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm."
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"Honesty is always the best policy."
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"The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul."
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"Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?"
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"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."
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"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem."
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"The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there. And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner."
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"Integrity has no need of rules."
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"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world."
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"I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches."
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"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
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"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy."
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