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• The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Simple, Pretentious, Banality

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• Face the facts, all these environmental organizations are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. They may trade on their youthful dreams, but the truth is, they're now part of the establishment. And the establishment works to preserve the status quo. It just does.

  Michael Crichton

  Dream, Years, Organization

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• The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.

  Wendy McElroy

  Powerful, Believe, Class

  "The Great Lie" by Wendy McElroy, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2003.

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• The moment truth is asserted, it becomes false.

  Laozi

  Moments

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• The truth is the best brands, like the most interesting people, have a keen sense of self.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Self, People, Interesting

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• The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Gun, Men, Rifles

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: African game trails”

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• Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

  Thomas Brooks

  Divides

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• The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.

  Bill Gates

  Sound, Needs, News

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• The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

  Martin Luther

  Genius, Spirit, Eloquence

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• The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.

  Dale Carnegie

  Heart, People, Way

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.92, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but inspiring.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Comforting, Wish, Uncomfortable

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 05, 2010

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• The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  States, Chains, Force

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• Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has not yet learned what truth is really like; once he has truly learned it, he will cease from zealousness on its behalf.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  People, Zealous, Behalf

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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.

  Aristotle

  Believe, Accepting, Thinker

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• The truth is that we all need repentance. If we are capable of reason and past the age of eight, we all need the cleansing that comes through applying the full effects of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Jesus, Past, Eight

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• The truth is, when girls are mean to you or make fun of you, it's because there's something wrong with them.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Girl, Fun, Mean

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• The faithful believe that certain truths have been 'revealed.' The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Errors, Faithful

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• The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our minds or our hearts for self-pity, self-loathing or unhappiness with the world in which we live.

  David S. Baxter

  Heart, Helping Others, Self

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• When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Biographies, Remember, Fit

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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.

  Steven Pinker

  Brain, Sometimes, Reason

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• The highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself out totally and completely. All of your ideas, your feelings, all have to be emptied out of you. When you become totally and completely empty there is nothing you have to do to fill it up again. Emptiness is realization. Emptiness is Brahman. Emptiness is the Self. Emptiness is your real nature.

  Robert Adams

  Real, Believe, Self

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Solitude, Debate

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• The Truth is that contentment is not found in having everything we think we want but in choosing to be satisfied with what God has already provided. The Truth is that those who insist on having their own way often end up with unnecessary heartache, while those who wait on the Lord always get His best.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Thinking, Heartache, Waiting

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe/Companion Guide for Lies Women Believe- 2 book set”, p.94, Moody Publishers

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• When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be.

  Alan Watts

  Lonely, Feelings, Littles

  Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.90, New World Library

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• I began to appreciate that authentic truth is never simple and that any version of truth handed down from on high - whether by presidents, prime ministers, or archbishops - is inherently suspect. The powerful, I came to see, reveal truth only to the extent that it suits them.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Powerful, Simple, Appreciate

  Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.3, Metropolitan Books

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