Truth Quotes
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I was examining what religious identity meant in Africa. Along the edge of the Islamic world, what patterns were shaping identity? And the truth is, when I looked at the rise of violent forms of religion, no single identity was prevalent. It's central to note that in Nigeria, that tree is rooted primarily in Christianity. It's not just Islamic militants in the Middle Belt.
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But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.
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There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.
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And just loving him with all her simple young heart and entirely believing in him, had made him, so completely commonplace before in all his utterances, suddenly—at least in the pulpit—sing. Was it acute, personal experience that one needed? Did one only cry out the truth really movingly when under some sort of lash, either of grief or ecstasy?
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When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.
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If you love the truth, you can remember it.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.
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Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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The entire gamut of scandal, hate, and lying is prepared for a poor man in this world who dares to work for the truth. That is why they got rid of me too: they feared me, for wickedness fears Truth.
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Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
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Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.
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The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you’re just another part of it.
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Do the truth quietly without display.
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God’s truth is this: abortion is murder.
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If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.
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I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.
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The truth is, there are probably eight more Snow White scripts floating around out there. And once one Snow White script got hot, other people started pulling out their Snow White scripts.
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Are we looking for the absolute truth or the absolute feeling? Or the answer that best suits our personal needs?
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We need to replace the lies of the enemy with the truth of God; to do so we need to know the truth of God.
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What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
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In truth, ending DACA will cost us tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.
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It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.
