"Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty."
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"Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry."
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"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."
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"Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart."
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"An honest man nearly always thinks justly."
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"I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt."
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"I have been drunk now for over two weeks."
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"It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it"
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"Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?"
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"We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God."
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"The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism."
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"Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you."
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"An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it."
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"All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature"
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"It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying."
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"Honesty's the best policy."
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"I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as something special, it would create a barrier between us. What makes us the same is that we all want to lead happy lives and gather friends around us. And friendship is based on trust, honesty and openness."
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"It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action."
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"We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind."
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"I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential."
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