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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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• All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Use, Made

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7394, Delphi Classics

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• Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Men, Every Man

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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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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• No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

  Walter Raleigh

  Wise, Honesty, Safety

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• Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

  Richard Whately

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  'Apophthegms' p. 219

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• No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1915). “The essays of Michael, lord of Montaigne”

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• Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.

  Reba McEntire

  Song, Honesty, Believe

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• An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.

  John Mellencamp

  Honesty, Men, Mind

  Song: Minutes To Memories, Album: Scarecrow

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• She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

  Ayn Rand

  Trust, Honesty, People

  "Atlas Shrugged".

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• The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friends, Honesty, Generosity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honesty, Power, Men

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• The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

  Philip Sidney

  Honesty, Lying, Heart

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.23

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• A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Honesty, Long, Solitude

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• For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"

  Robert Burns

  Nature, Honesty, Men

  'To the same' [John Lapraik] st. 15

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• If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Honesty, Thinking, Desire

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• In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.

  Carter Heyward

  Love, God, Respect

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• Well, I haven't been an impulsive guy lately because I'm not in control of my own life. I'm living other peoples' requirements at the moment. It's the part of the job that is the most difficult for actors. I'm finding it very soul-jailing, you know? You don't have time to play guitar or speak to your friends and family. It's very demanding. I don't know how people do it, to be honest, without an alcohol.

  Brenton Thwaites

  People, Guy, Alcohol

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• It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Voice, Listening

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Annotated Treasure Island with English Grammar Exercises: by Robert Louie Stevenson (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.79, Powell Publications, LLC

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• When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sweet, Hurt, Cameras

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.

  Gene Hill

  Love, Friendship, Dog

  Gary Paulsen, James Herriot, Bill Tarrant, Gene Hill, Ted Kerasote, Lynn Stone “In Praise of Labs”

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• It isn't necessarily easier if you know what it is you're meant to do-- but at least you don't waste time in questioning or doubting. If you're honest--well, that isn't necessarily easier, either. Though I suppose if you're honest with yourself and know what you are, at least you're less likely to feel that you've wasted your life, doing the wrong thing.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Doubt, Waste, Wasting Time

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1529, Dell

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• There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.

  Ralph Moody

  Honesty, Lying, Men

  Ralph Moody (1991). “Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers”, p.177, U of Nebraska Press

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• I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things.

  Jenny Downham

  People, Want, Cry

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.

  Lee Strobel

  Believe, Character, Doubt

  Lee Strobel (2000). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.225, Harper Collins

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