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I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
– Michael Tippett
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I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.
– Harold Ford
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.
– Oriana Fallaci
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
– Stephen Fry
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I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.
– Ron Wyden
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
– Victor Borge
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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
– Sophocles
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How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
– Curt Weldon
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
– Mary Astell
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Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
– Busta Rhymes
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Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
– Bob Dylan
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
– Thomas Jefferson
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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
– Blaise Pascal
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Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
– Roy H. Williams
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
– W. Clement Stone
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God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
– William Ellery Channing
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Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
– Beth Ditto
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
– Herman Melville
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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
– Thomas Carlyle
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
– Aristotle
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For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.
– Emmanuelle Beart
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
– Nadia Giosia
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Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.
– Gene Robinson
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
– Edgar Allan Poe
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Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
– Donna Tartt
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
– Alfred Adler
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Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
– Tony Blair
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
– Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
– Deepak Chopra
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Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
– Vera Farmiga
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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
– Thomas Huxley
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Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.
– Michael Leunig
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Each has its lesson for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
– Henry Timrod
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Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
– Maurice Sendak
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Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?
– Ayelet Waldman
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Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
– Martin Scorsese
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By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
– Ayelet Waldman
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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
– George Carlin
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But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.
– Hjalmar Schacht
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
– Hamid Karzai
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But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.
– Condoleezza Rice
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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
– Alan Watts
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But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
– Seamus Heaney
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
– Vanessa Kerry
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Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.
– Dan Farmer
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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
– George Henry Lewes
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
– Samuel Johnson
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Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.
– Moustapha Akkad
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Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
– Gustave Courbet
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
– Adolf Loos
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Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
– Rupert Sheldrake
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As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.
– Melissa Auf Der Maur
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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
– Theodor Adorno
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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
– Publilius Syrus
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Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.
– Michelle Malkin
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Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
– Bobby Darin
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And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.
– Tony Hale
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And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.
– David Miliband
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And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
– William Peter Blatty
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And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
– Emanuel Swedenborg
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All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
– John Shelby Spong
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Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
– Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
– Max Planck
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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
– Theodor Adorno
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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
– James Allen
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
– Jack White
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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
– Stephen Leacock
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A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!
– Sonia Johnson
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A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
– Henry Mayhew
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'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.
– Corey Hart
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'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Success isn't what others can see, but how you feel. It's living your truth and doing what makes you truly happy. That's success.
– Robert Tew
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What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.
– James Cook
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