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• Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Truth, Rip, Responsibility

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• 70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  "Rubio Delivers Address on 50th Anniversary of the 'War on Poverty'". www.rubio.senate.gov. January 08, 2014.

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• It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction.

  Hilary Swank

  Blessed, Play, True Life

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.

  Nora Ephron

  Sports, Husband, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.

  Steven Tyler

  Pain, Believe, Reading

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• The power to bind and loose to Truth is given:
  The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven,
  The power, which in a sense belongs to none,
  Thus understood belongs to every one.

  Abraham Coles

  Truth, Heaven, Mouths

  Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

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• Truth is never our enemy, ever. So we should never freak out about people who claim to have discovered truth. If it's true truth, God owns it and has already accounted for it, and while nothing that is true ever contradicts God's revealed word in the Bible, discovered truth sometimes contradicts the words of Christians. We shouldn't be afraid of this, because God knew it before anybody else and its discovery is dependent on his sovereignty anyway. The truth is that the truth is ours - all truth is our truth because we are of Christ and Christ is of the sovereign God.

  Matt Chandler

  Christian, Discovery, People

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• I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity.

  Frances Trollope

  Believe, Knights, Race

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• Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

  George Lillo

  Truth, Enemy, Malice

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Fatal curiosity”, p.73

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• Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Wise, Mother, Lying

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “In The Meantime: Finding Yourself And The Love You Want”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth isn't what we say, it's how we feel when we say it.

  Merrit Malloy

  Truth, Feels

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• Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.

  Kedar Joshi

  Truth, Matter, Orphan

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• Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to enjoy favor with all the people. The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!

  O. S. Hawkins

  Christian, Real, People

  O. S. Hawkins (2005). “Guidestones: ancient landmarks of authenticity for the 21st century church”

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• We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

  James Vila Blake

  Truth, Men, Wish

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• I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

  Lydia M. Child

  May, Appearance, Goodness

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• I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

  Ali MacGraw

  Girl, Stupid, Divorce

  "'Love Story' Actress Ali McGraw: I Should Have Sought Alimony". www.foxnews.com. January 06, 2012.

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• The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

  Sara Rue

  Thinking, People, Different

  "Actress Sara Rue talks 'Dorfman in Love,' 'Popular,' 'Malibu Country'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Race, Profound

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.

  Aristotle

  Soul, Intellectual, Virtue

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• We believe in Sarva Pantha Sambhav. We believe 'the truth is one, there are ways to reach it.

  Narendra Modi

  Believe, India, Politics

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• Why waste so much time, energy, and money trying to buy the biggest house that your credit rating will allow? Truth be known, a small house can hold as much happiness as a large one. Sometimes it will hold even more.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Home, House, Trying

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• Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.

  Tony Kushner

  Lying, Writing, Luxury

  "We Call That Failure Art" by Tony Kushner, www.newyorker.com. October 31, 2013.

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• The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.

  Wesley Clark

  Oil, Middle East, Would Be

  "Gen. Wesley Clark Weighs Presidential Bid: 'I Think About It Every Day'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 2, 2007.

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• For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

  John Brunner

  Impact, Data, Reason

  John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Interesting, Example, Castles

  "Carlos Ruiz Zafón's top 10 20th-century gothic novels". www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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