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• Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Truth, Honesty, Mean

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• The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.

  Kenny Loggins

  Truth, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If there is a mutual respect between players and coaches, that keeps the team honest and makes for a very healthy environment which in turn promotes other important qualities such as work ethic, integrity and a positive atmosphere for competing and winning.

  Jillian Ellis

  Success, Sports, Integrity

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• To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Athlete, Character

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• The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

  Ximenes Doudan

  Integrity, Humility, Men

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• I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Atheist, Believe, Hypocrite

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• Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.

  H. L. Mencken

  Atheist, Honesty, Mistake

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• Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

  Warsan Shire

  Love, Betrayal, Two

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• The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fall, Procrastination, Cutting

  Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.101

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• I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say my mom. Apart from the fact that she's my mother, she's a brilliant comedian and a force as a producer. She paved the way for women to produce and star in their own films, and to balance that with being the matriarch of our family is really inspiring.

  Kate Hudson

  Mom, Mother, Stars

  "Our Own Private Hollywood". Elle Interview, www.elle.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

  Spike Lee

  Country, Rap, America

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• Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.

  Chinua Achebe

  Children, Eye, Justice

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• Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Recovery, Justice

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• Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did.

  Frances Perkins

  Eye, Men, Ethical Principles

  Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”

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• If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Order

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

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• The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Mind, Clients

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

  Dan Rather

  Honesty, Lying, Thinking

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• Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.

  Vernon Howard

  Spiritual, Real, Simple

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• It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Fake People, Thinking, World

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• Man is his own star, and the soul that can, render an honest and a perfect man,
  Commands all light, all influence, all fate: nothing to him falls early or too late.
  Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

  John Fletcher

  Stars, Fall, Angel

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1840). “The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher”, p.499

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• Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Luck, Merit

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• I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can. To be honest with you, I have a tough time keeping weight on.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Time Keeping, Tough Times

  Interview with Patrick Mauro, www.ign.com. July, 2005.

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• The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

  John Lyly

  Inspirational, Honesty, Life Is

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• I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Suffering, Poison

  Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.357, Univ of California Press

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• No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Men

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”

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