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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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Peace if possible, truth at all costs. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. ↗

— Mencius

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When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth. ↗

— Eva Mendes

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I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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