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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

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The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this. ↗

— David Axelrod

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There is no original truth, only original error. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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You never find yourself until you face the truth. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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