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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth. ↗

— Margaret Lee Runbeck

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. ↗

— John Ruskin

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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Easy in but not easily out, as the lobster said in the lobster pot! ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#truthful #humor

I can be glib and truthful all at once. ↗

— Richard Russo

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The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ↗

— Richard Russo

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Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted. ↗

— Richard Russo

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The best mind-altering drug is the truth. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

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It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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