"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."
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"I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth."
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"Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility."
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"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."
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"Lying can never save us from another lie."
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"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."
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"If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches-perish the thought; because it's not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work. Riches come if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck."
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"Honesty: The best of all the lost arts."
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"Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty."
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"Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying."
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"Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies."
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"Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration."
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"No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient."
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"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."
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"Trust and honesty is an investment you put in people."
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"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
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"To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business."
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"Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said."
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"Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those walls. We touch them and smell them and get to know them well. We begin a process of acknowledging our aversions and our cravings. We become familiar with the strategies and beliefs we use to build the walls: What are the stories I tell myself? What repels me and what attracts me? We start to get curious about what’s going on."
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"Honesty is better than any policy."
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