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• You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Real, Thinking

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

  Rebecca West

  Love, Real, Writing

  "The Art of Scepticism" (1952)

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• The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Real, World Government

  "F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945" edited by Elliott Roosevelt, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (p. 373), 1950.

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• No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Believe, Character

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• Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Real, Lying, Mean

  Susan Wittig Albert (2009). “Wormwood”, p.35, Penguin

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• The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Giving, Charity

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.

  Roseanne Barr

  Real, Voice, Alive

  "Q&A: Roseanne Barr, on marijuana, the CIA, and how she is, in fact, the president". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I am the only real truth I know.

  Jean Rhys

  Truth, Real, Acceptance

  Jean Rhys, Isak Dinesen (1978). “Women Fiction 2”

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• The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.

  Meg Rosoff

  Real, War, Kissing

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• If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Real, Infinity

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.237, Pan Macmillan

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• A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sweet, Real, Lying

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• I will tell you something that you don't want to hear: Autumn is ugly! Look at the dying leaves! There is no beauty in dying! Death is always ugly! The beauty of autumn is just an illusion, my friend! Wake up and see the real truth! See the crying leaves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Autumn, Dying

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• The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.

  Aisha Hinds

  Powerful, Real, Stories

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.

  Christopher Nolan

  Real, Believe, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I "really" believed, lectures from here and there on "the real truth," etc.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Christian, Real

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• The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Real, Aggravation

  "Dreaming Awake at the End of Time". Terence McKenna's speech in San Francisco, www.youtube.com. December 13, 1998.

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• The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Names, Tolerance

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• sometimes gossip is by far the most reliable source of information about yourself and all your friends, especially in Manhattan. I always say why trust myself when gossip can tell moi the real truth about moi?

  Plum Sykes

  Real, Gossip, Manhattan

  Plum Sykes (2007). “Bergdorf Blondes: A Novel”, Miramax Books

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• It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Real, Curiosity, Matter

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. V), 1916.

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• There is a place deep, deep inside every person that is hidden and hard to find. If things get bad enough and life gets too hard, though, some people will go to that place and never come back from it. Certainly, all outward appearances will suggest otherwise. They will look as they always did. They may even act somewhat like their old selves, but the truth is, the real truth is that they are hiding in this place deep inside where no one can touch or hurt them anymore.

  Victoria Forester

  Hurt, Real, Self

  Victoria Forester (2008). “The Girl Who Could Fly”, p.275, Macmillan

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• The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

  David Duchovny

  Real, Drama, People

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• Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!

  Vladimir Lenin

  Atheist, Real, Lying

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• I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Lying, Thinking

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• The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.

  Robert Peel

  Real, Mean, Numbers

  Robert Peel, George Peel (Hon.) (1853). “Sir Robert Peel: From His Private Papers”

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• The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

  Martin Scorsese

  Real, Christianity, Term

  Source: www.npr.org

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