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• Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Yield, Quotations

  "The Ways of Paradox and other Essays (The Ways of Paradox)". Book by Willard Van Orman Quine, 1966.

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• Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vanity, Evil, Deceit

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “The Lives of the Poets: A Selection”, p.219, OUP Oxford

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• It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Deceit, Deceiving

  "Pro Murena". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter XXX), November 63 BC.

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• So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus was basically turned on inciting the American public against Iraq and pushing them to accept the American administration's schemes of aggression as a fait accompli, as if it were the solution or the necessary rescue that would allow American citizens to live in security and stability, after what they had gone through in the September 11 attacks.

  Naji Sabri

  Lying, Iraq, Long

  "Saddam's letter to U.N. says U.S. wants oil". www.cnn.com. September 20, 2002.

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• Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.

  David Rice

  Lying, Artist, Men

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• Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.

  Anne Mallory

  Easy, Foolhardy

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• Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Soul, Guilt

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.305, Macmillan

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• It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

  George H. Smith

  Men, Atheism, May

  George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.10, Prometheus Books

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• Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

  Albert Pike

  Mean, Men, Two

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

  Clement of Alexandria

  Thinking, Doe, Modesty

  "The Instructor (Complete)".

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• There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or from Sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgement of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species.

  David Hume

  Intelligent, Perception Of Beauty, Judgement

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• Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Men, Data, Giving

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• It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

  Adrian Rogers

  Hurt, Errors, Comfort

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• The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

  Solomon Asch

  Discovery, Mind, Organs

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• What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Truth, Mountain

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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• Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Courage, Truth

  The Idler no. 30 (11 Nov. 1758)

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• The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thinking, Bridges, Meditation

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• THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On occasion the voice of peace resounds like thunder, jolting human beings out of their stupor.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Fighting, Voice

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Lying, Men, Order

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• If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon lawyers who make the law of evidence one of our peculiar studies. Our profession leads us to explore the mazes of falsehood, to detect its artifices, to pierce its thickest veils, to follow and expose its sophistries, to compare the statements of different witnesses with severity, to discover truth and separate it from error.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Men, Errors, Law

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• Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride.

  Sivananda

  Honesty, Hate, Character

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• A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fighting, Errors, Evil

  C. H. Spurgeon (2004). “Spurgeon's Sermons on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus”, p.294, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.

  Henry Cloud

  Couple, Real, Years

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2002). “Boundaries in Marriage”, p.127, Zondervan

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• No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Fun, Believe

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• God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real selves. God's ultimate intent is not to leave us faithless, but to leave us faith-full. There are few things as exhilarating as going through the fire and finding that you had the resilience to make it through. All of us wonder at times whether we have what it takes. God wants to bring us to a place where we have no doubt of the work He has done within us.

  Erwin McManus

  Real, Fire, Self

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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