"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"

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"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"

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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

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"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time.""

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."

Stephen Leacock, Canadian Economist

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"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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