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I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#answer #asked #control #course #had

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? ↗

— Curt Weldon

#brave #brave soldiers #bureaucrats #chance #deny

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth. ↗

— William John Wills

#freely #given #pervert #powers #rare

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#logic #prior #truth #world

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth. ↗

— Tom Wopat

#billie #billie holiday #hear #her #holiday

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories. ↗

— Brigham Young

#build #down #ears #enjoy #enter

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#creeds #heroic #myths #struggles #truth

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#come #day #deliverance #figures #illusory

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#always #everything #germ #just #truth

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. ↗