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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

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It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

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For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels. ↗

— Paul Anka

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It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime. ↗

— John Ashcroft

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He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. ↗

— Red Auerbach

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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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