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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.


Samuel Johnson

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TED TURNER Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.
ELLEN P. LACTER Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of ...
CESLAW MILOSZ Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of ...
CZESLAW MILOSZ There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.
MARK TWAIN To tell part of the truth is more dangerous than lying.
MINETTE MARIN Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
GEORGE ELIOT It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that...
ADRIAN ROGERS It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood
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BERNARD WILLIAMS The truth is always more heroic than the hype.
JESSICA LYNCH The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the trut...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the wo...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.
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GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
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LUCIAN FREUD There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testim...
THOMAS S. MONSON Falsehood travels faster than truth.
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LAUREN CHATTMAN Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood.
DANISH PROVERB Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.
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ANUJ SOMANY Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply...
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GARY F EVANS... Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
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Let the magic unfold...
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GARY F EVANS... There is not much more beautiful in the world than the silence of snow.
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C. JOYBELL C. From this it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
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JOHNNY CORN Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
HOSEA BALLOU See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'd be lying if I said I didn't want you
I'd be lying if I said I didn't wish you were mine
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FRANCIS BACON Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
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MARILYN MINTER The veil of falsehood shall be torn down from within you, and Truth shall come to dwell in the mind.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again exp...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
SAMUEL JOHNSON While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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