"And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all."
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"Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty."
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"Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings."
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"I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies."
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"Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean."
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"You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are."
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"write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway."
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"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies."
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"In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway."
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"The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom."
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"You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government."
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"It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it."
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"Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value."
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"The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity."
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"When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks."
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"He that steals an egg will steal an ox."
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"I want to change how women think of and feel about marketing. It not only helps women get the results they want, but marketing brings out our best human attributes: true listening, compassion, honesty, and a spirit of service."
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"Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers."
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"Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?"
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"honesty dies in selling itself."
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