- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth Quotes
Truth, examined from a few angles.
This set opens with the idea that a story's meaning ultimately depends on the relationship between reader, writer, and character, before turning to a pointed geopolitical observation about oil and foreign intervention. For more grounded reflections, see Heart.
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- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.
- Public Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
To tell you the truth, I used an Instagram filter called Ginza to share a snippet of the song - I simply left the name in the caption in case anyone wanted to use the same filter. But everyone started calling the song 'Ginza.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best fantasy does not offer an answer to our lives, it is an offering that acknowledges enough of the truth to resonate and add to the understanding about the human condition.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had purpose in my heart that I would stand up for the truth regardless of what I might lose in life.
- Tell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020