"Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect."
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"I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that kind of help, Western society does not allow people to come to terms with their feelings. With honesty and therapy, my people can be made whole again."
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"The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm"
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"Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend."
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"Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be."
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"Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life."
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"These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness"
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"I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier."
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"Patriotism ruins history."
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"Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness."
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"Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law."
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"I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships."
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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
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"The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry."
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"When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them."
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"Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves."
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"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
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"An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced."
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"Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence."
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"She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted."
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