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• Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hands, Atheism, Slavery

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• So I learned that the people who make the most of the process of encountering reality, especially the painful obstacles, learn the most and get what they want faster than people who do not. ... In short, I learned that being totally truthful, especially about mistakes and weaknesses, led to a rapid rate of improvement and movement toward what I wanted.

  Ray Dalio

  Mistake, Reality, People

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• After you read the script, then you actually just have to be in the moment you're in, in order to make it believable. You can't give it away. You can't tip it off. For me, it's always about being truthful in the moment I'm in. Hopefully, being able to reveal what I'm feeling, you have to believe it.

  Victor Garber

  Believe, Order, Giving

  "Victor Garber Talks BIG GAME, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, THE FLASH, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 29, 2015.

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• The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I'm talking to a group and I'm saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out of those statements that is different than when I'm just being glib or clever.

  Barack Obama

  Clever, Powerful, Talking

  "Transcript: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview" by Cathleen Falsani, sojo.net. February 21, 2012.

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• I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.

  Bob Dylan

  Spiritual, Song, Earth

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

  Plato

  Hate, Character, Men

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• Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Factual

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Pride, Men, Thinking

  "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix: A Selection". Book edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, Cornell University Press, June 6, 1824 (p. 45), 1980.

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• I'm not big on trying to label it [my rap] or trying to prove people otherwise. I'm just making records that I like and that I wanna make. I'm just making records that relate to me and that relate to my life. If you listen to what I'm saying I'm not talking about anything that isn't my life. I take pride in having truthful lyrics.

  Mike Stud

  Rap, Pride, Talking

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leader, Brave, Stupidity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do.

  Ice Cube

  Rap, Thinking, People

  RIME Interview with Ani Yapundzhyan, cargocollective.com.

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• The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

  Rob Lowe

  Umbrella, Being Truthful

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• Every time I crash the Internet, it's like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?

  Kanye West

  Littles, Internet, Crash

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• A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.

  Ben Schwartz

  Thinking, Play, Two

  "Undercovers' Ben Schwartz on Agent Hoyt, Action Stunts and Improv in the Spy World". Interview with Kate Stanhope, www.tvguide.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I've never been satisfied with myself, ever. But I feel good about myself, because I'm truthful. I don't corrupt myself. I'm also a perfectionist. I'm very impatient. I've got energy and drive and I can't stand inefficiency in people. And I can't stand dumb people. Why surround yourself with people who are going to tie you down? I don't suffer fools.

  Jack LaLanne

  Ties, People, Feel Good

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• The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Friendship, Real Friends, Night

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• There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

  Irving Stone

  Inspirational, Friendship, Book

  Irving Stone (1941). “Clarence Darrow for the defense”, Doubleday Books

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• American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truth, Lying, Simple

  Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

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• Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

  Chris Hedges

  Important, Becoming, Vegetarian

  "Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time". www.truthdig.com. November 10, 2014.

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  I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Yourself

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• Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

  Gary L. Francione

  Sacrifice, Joy, Abolitionist

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• It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

  James A. Baldwin

  Mirrors, Order, People

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• Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• The worst crime is faking it.

  Kurt Cobain

  Music, Fake People, Jazz

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• I am not cruel, only truthful.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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