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• There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Science, Errors

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• In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

  Graydon Carter

  Book, Thinking, Deception

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• Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

  Samuel Daniel

  Brother, Time, Sleep

  'Sonnets to Delia' (1592) no. 54

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• Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  True Friend, Party, Struggle

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• The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, War, America

  "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, www.informationclearinghouse.info. April 30, 1967.

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• We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

  Walter Gropius

  Law, Want, Building

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• Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Teaching, Firsts

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• We desperately need in this country a discussion of American policy toward Russia. We can't keep saying an untruth, that this new Cold War is solely the fault of Putin. We need to rethink our policy toward Russia.

  Stephen F. Cohen

  Country, War, Cold

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Lying, Men

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.349, eKitap Projesi

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• Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Clouds, Darkness

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• If President Clinton has his way, we will have a false debate in the 1996 election campaign. It will not engage real political choices - choices framed by our appetite for government services and our distaste for taxes - but rather artificial choices crafted by Clinton to advance his reelection. Clinton has clearly been using the budget as an election platform...I dislike using the word 'lies,' but Clinton exploits such forbearance (widespread in the press) to spread untruths.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  Real, Lying, Government

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• A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.

  Christopher Vogler

  Thinking, Self, Profound

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• I don't like to see facts twisted, untruths fabricated to give the [Supreme Court] nominee a black eye, even before he comes before Senate committee.

  Chuck Grassley

  Eye, Giving, Black

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Science, Sticks

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• Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery.

  James Bovard

  Alzheimer's, Long, People

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• Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Lying, Wish, Please

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• When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. Then I drank and I partied - did all that stuff that might tell you maybe there was a little bit of untruth in that [description]. Now, the surprising thing is that when I say stuff, I actually mean it. I don't have to do the work of trying to formulate my point of view. It just is. And it's surprising how much I love life. I just really have a good time.

  Michael J. Fox

  Love Life, Mean, Views

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 4 (1651)

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• That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Earth, Faces

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Horse, Names, Two

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• The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

  Errol Morris

  Lying, Thinking, Chance

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Law, Violence

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• When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Temptation, Desire, Fruit

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• When the tempter me pursueth
  With the sins of all my youth,
  And half damns me with untruth,
  Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Prayer, Temptation

  Robert Herrick (1887). “Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human an Divine of Robert Herrick”

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• I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics.

  George Jackson

  Song, War, Army

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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