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• No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Atheism

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.219, University of Chicago Press

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• What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really appear to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn't stay there any longer and had to go somewhere else to make it. That's all. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts. Those who were making it in England, for example, did not get on the Mayflower. That's how the country was settled.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Believe, Hero

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• So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Patriotic

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.

  Stephen Gaskin

  Educational, Thinking, Self

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• In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.

  Laozi

  Heart, Land, Dwelling

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• Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Fiction

  Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “The Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.398, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

  William Hazlitt

  Gossip, Should, Said

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.76

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• If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Brother, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I felt like my vote was the vote that put [Obama] into office. It was down to one vote, and that was going to be my vote. And that may not be true, but that's how much power it felt like I had.

  Puff Daddy

  Funny, Office, Dumb

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• Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, May, Firsts

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.339

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• Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Religious, Dog

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• It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Challenges, Important, Be True To Yourself

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• Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go wrong?

  Rachel Maddow

  Inspirational, Empowering, Asking

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• To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

  Henry Vaughan

  Friendship, Country, True Friend

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Children are certainly too good to be true.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Baby, Children, Too Good To Be True

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “The Collected Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.200, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.

  Arthur Ashe

  Motivational, Sports, Responsibility

  Arthur Ashe, Neil Amdur (1981). “Off the court”, Dutton Adult

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• Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  True Friend, Love Is, Men

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.164, World Wisdom, Inc

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• It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Joy, Doe, Needs

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Success, Victory, Earth

  "Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses of Fredk. W. Robertson, Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 1847-1853".

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• A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Character, Men

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.75

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• If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no king or contest or fiery furnace will be able to compromise us. For the success of the kingdom of God on earth, may we stand as witnesses for Him "at all times and in all things, and in all places that we may be in, even until death."

  Howard W. Hunter

  Faith, Kings, Honesty

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• I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Honesty, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.291, Library of Alexandria

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• In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Honesty, Lying, Simple

  "13th Article simple yet powerful" by Chris Morales, www.ldschurchnews.com. September 21, 2007.

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• What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

  Abraham Maslow

  Guilt, May, Be True To Yourself

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.88, John Wiley & Sons

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• If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Together, Selfishness

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