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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

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There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. ↗

— Christine Lavin

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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful. ↗

— Spike Lee

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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

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Tell the truth. ↗

— Ian Hunter

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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. ↗

— Max Lerner

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. ↗

— Max Lerner

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