"Truth uttered before its time is dangerous."
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"I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing."
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"When I was younger, I was just always looking for - you're always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I've gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation."
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"The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it."
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"The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community."
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"I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart."
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"To be honest, one must be inconsistent."
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"I don't require lust, sex, or classic beauty; I require trust, respect, and honesty. All else builds from there."
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"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned."
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"The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth."
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"Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe."
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"A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form."
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"If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title."
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"Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character."
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"When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with."
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"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."
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"Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man."
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"Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people."
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"Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart."
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"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people."
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