"To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward."
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"Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde."
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"I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind."
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"For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal."
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"The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes."
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"Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it."
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"When you're gone I can go running though the house screaming and no one will ever hear me."
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"He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying."
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"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."
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"One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be."
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"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky."
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"Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)"
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"No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it."
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"Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there."
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"Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing."
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"Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?"
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"Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine."
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"Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears."
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"I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint."
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"Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down."
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