"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."

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"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."

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"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."

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"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."

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"Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end."

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"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."

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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

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"For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep."

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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

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"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."

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"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."

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"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

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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

Truth, People, Choice, Country, Now

"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

Truth, Society, Lie, Inferiority

"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

Truth, Time, Daughter, Name, Now

"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

Truth, Argument

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

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

Truth, Lies, Lying

"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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