"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."

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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."

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Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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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."

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Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once."

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."

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"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."

"A feeble body weakens the mind."

"Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome."

"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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