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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

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Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

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My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

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The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future. ↗

— Roone Arledge

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. ↗

— Richard Bach

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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. ↗

— Alain Badiou

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When I thought about the calibre of people in the room I realized we might just have a credible candidate for Mayor who will would finally enforce the laws of the city. It was almost too good to be true. ↗

— Herbert Baker

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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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