"There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook."
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"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander"
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""If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you'll get my meaning anyway. You won't make me "an offender for a word." When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.""
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"It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably."
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"Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
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"And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks of circumstance. Only he who questions the universe and questions it in utter honesty can grow in his comprehension of the truth."
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"You should not honor men more than truth."
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"Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds."
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"I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap."
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"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking."
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"When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility."
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"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
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"Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable."
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"To be believed make the truth unbelievable."
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"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
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"When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends."
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"You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him."
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"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
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"I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth"
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"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."
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