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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. ↗

— Jose Marti

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There is little more powerful than when truth joins action. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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You are physically up for scrutiny by everyone and you hear everyone's opinion. ↗

— Karlie Kloss

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A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril . ↗

— Alfred Loisy

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