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    A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

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    A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

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    Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

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    As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

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    As you get older your willingness to tell more of the truth is awakened and you don't have to think about it or imagine it because now you know this to be true.

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    As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

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    A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

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    A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

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    A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

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    Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.

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    Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

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    As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.

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    Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

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    But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

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    But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.

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    Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.

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    But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

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    But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

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    But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

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    But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.

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    But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.

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    But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.

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    Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a hard-on for some product, whereas the truth is that sexuality is always a continuum, which can be characterized by reversals.

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    Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.

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    Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

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    Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.

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    But what if...what if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn’t even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through?

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    Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

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    Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.

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    Custom without truth is error grown old.

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    Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

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    Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

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    Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

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    Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

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    Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

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    Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

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    Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.

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    Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

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    Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

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    Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

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    Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

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    Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

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    Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—

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    Everyone has Love towards some thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone has ultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.

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    Don't close off the possibility of new truth because you've been comfortable with an old one. Life be-gins at the end of your comfort zone.

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    Errors are many, truth is unique.

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    Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.

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    Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

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    Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.

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    Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.