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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth."

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
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"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues."

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary."

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Donald James Author
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"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."

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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
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"Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion."

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