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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

—Mark Twain

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

—Lenin

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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.

—Kahlil Gibran

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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

—Josh Billings

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

—David Shore

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

—Clarence Darrow

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

—Bible

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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

—André Gide

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

—Agnes Repplier

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

—Abraham Lincoln

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We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

—Unknown

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

—Unknown

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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

—Francis Bacon

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I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.

—Robertson Davies

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