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A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then kn...

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False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental...

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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appea...

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If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other ai...

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This box is useless," said Alliance 6-7349.Should it be what they claim of it," said Harmony 9-2642,...

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A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...

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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we...

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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.

Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Chur...

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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private r...

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When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained...

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When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes vir...

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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what ...

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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

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H. L. MenckenThe Artist: A Drama Without Words

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.

But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed,...

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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too...

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Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depen...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth i...

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...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill ...

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Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill ...

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Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill ...

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Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill ...

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Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense...

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Roger ScrutonThe Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

Round numbers are always false.

There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and dishev...

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