#truth

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#competitiveness #corporal #daring #decent #energy

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#easy #miss #often #others #see

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun. ↗

— David Spade

#brutal #depressing #either #fun #have fun

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#again #attention #haven #high #high school

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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