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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#all day #break #bubble #day #evening

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A new untruth is better than an old truth. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#all day #break #bubble #day #evening

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here. ↗

— Tom Hopkins

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ↗

— Horace

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