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The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth. ↗

— Robert Baldwin Ross

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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The past has no power over the present moment. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. ↗

— Queen Victoria

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I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

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How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? ↗

— Curt Weldon

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