"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned."
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"If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out."
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"The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth."
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"The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action."
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
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"Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe."
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"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."
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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
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"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."
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"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."
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"We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear."
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"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."
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"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."
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"In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution."
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"History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again."
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"Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue."
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"Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed."
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"To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!"
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"Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough."
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"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs."
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