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• I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Government, People, Wish

  "On the Admissibility of Capital Punishment". "Notebooks and Diaries". Book by Franz Grillparzer, 1836.

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• A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Integrity, Compliments You, Quality

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• The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Discovery, Two, Broken

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• To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

  Prince Harry

  Funny, Children, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To get hwat you want out of life, all you really need to do is be honest about it, don't be afraid to go for it, and have fun while you do it -- and you'll eventually get it.

  Tucker Max

  Fun, Needs, Want

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

  Eric Cantor

  Mean, Promise, Looks

  "Meet the Press" with Davide Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. February 28, 2010.

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• I do not promise to believe tomorrow exactly what I believe today, and I do not believe today exactly what I believed yesterday. I expect to make, as I have made, some honest progress within every succeeding twenty-four hours.

  Andrew Jackson

  Believe, Yesterday, Promise

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• Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Sufferers, Honest Man

  "The Works of Samuel Richardson: With a Sketch of His Life and Writings".

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• Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Party, Responsibility

  "For Republicans, the Moment for Reform Has Arrived" by Tom Coburn, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 24, 2010.

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• The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

  Adolf Loos

  Law, People, Secret

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• I am proof that you can you make money in Italy and be honest.

  Leonardo Del Vecchio

  Making Money, Being Honest, Proof

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• I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government

  Roy Barnes

  Government, Georgia, Committed

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• I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

  Iris Chang

  Writing, Thinking, May

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• I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.

  Alan Shearer

  Kids, Hands, Watches

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2010.

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• I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Powerful, President, Groups

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• There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

  Charles Rennie Mackintosh

  Errors, Perfection, Icy

  William Buchanan, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (2004). “Mackintosh's Masterwork: The Glasgow School of Art”, p.20, Rutgers University Press

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• The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

  Laozi

  Wise, Men, Squares

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• Everyone who is honest is interesting.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Interesting

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• I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful — being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational.

  James Branch Cabell

  Heaven, Secret, World

  James Branch Cabell (2005). “Beyond Life”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront

  Boyd Rice

  Secret, Made, Interest

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• In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

  Robert McKee

  Art, Liars, Lying

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• A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.

  Robert McKee

  Powerful, Drama, Light

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• If you’re really looking for answers, look past me. But if you’re interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible.

  Rich Mullins

  Past, Looks, Answers

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• New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.

  Samuel J. Tilden

  New York, Independent, Bars

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• Jamming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.

  Kalle Lasn

  Night, Coins, Joyful

  "Culture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must". Book by Kalle Lasn, 1999.

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