#the truth

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

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In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. ↗

— Michael Musto

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I believe in telling the truth. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

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If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth. ↗

— Gerald Vann

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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either. ↗

— Bear Bryant

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I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. ↗

— Lee Child

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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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The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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