"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
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"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."
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"Truth between candid minds can never do harm."
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"You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it."
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"Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty."
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"Two truths cannot contradict one another."
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"Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size."
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"Who lies for you will lie against you."
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"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie."
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"The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it."
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"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light."
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"You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it.""
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"The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts."
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"The false can never grow into truth by growing in power."
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"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
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"Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying."
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"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."
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"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
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"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."
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"From error to error one discovers the entire truth."
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