#telling the truth

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. ↗

— Anita Brookner

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The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

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I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. ↗

— Ramakrishna

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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. ↗

— June Jordan

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