"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."

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"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."

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"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either."

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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

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"For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."

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"Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul."

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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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