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• The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Hopeful, Intellectual, Age

  Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy (2001). “The Power of Ideas”, p.52, Princeton University Press

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• Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Long, Independence

  Alexander Pope (1776). “Works”, p.128

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• Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Rama, Coal, World

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• Elizabeth Turnage is a woman of grit and grace who lives into the stories of those who join her in this odd journey of seeking God. She honors the complexity of life without ever losing sight of the simple glory of the cross. Her grasp of the mundane and miraculous and their interplay gives a depth and honesty to her story that tugs at the heart and gives us hope our story can matter. Her book will be a clarion call to bring our broken, holy, troubled, and glorious life to the author of all stories: Jesus.

  Dan B. Allender

  Jesus, Book, Heart

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• It is a testament to the fundamental honesty of football that Israel, with nothing to play for, overcame Russia in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The sport has its faults, but this basic trust is the reason Wembley holds 80,000 and could take more and the track and field venue for the London Olympics will be reduced after the event to the same capacity as the home of Wigan Athletic.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Dance, Art, Oneself

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• Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Issues, Details

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• If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Demand, One Thing

  Jack Nicklaus (2007). “Golf My Way”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• I love working with horses. People say you shouldn't work with animals and children; that's wrong. You must only work with children, because you only work eight hours a day and I love working with animals. Animals have an honesty that human beings reach to find in their lives at the best of times.

  Colin Farrell

  Horse, Children, Animal

  "Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, Eva Marie Saint and Akiva Goldsman Talk WINTER'S TALE, Fairy Tales, and the Movie's Secret Message". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. February 14, 2014.

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• What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

  Michael Ealy

  I've Learned, Commodity

  Source: collider.com

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• I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.

  Andrew Bird

  Believe, May, Output

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political stuff. I write a weekly feature. I express myself. But when time comes to make music [with the] same absolutely unleashing of total honesty zero inhibitions, it just flows like a stream of conscientiousness because I will not be silenced no matter what my point might be.

  Ted Nugent

  Zero, Writing, Political

  "Ted Nugent Exclusive All Access Interview Motor City Madman Shutup & Jam P2". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I think you can just go out and try to be the best you can be, deal with people with respect, with honesty, with integrity, have a high moral standard. I've always really tried to exemplify that as an athlete. I'll continue to try to do that.

  Tom Brady

  Integrity, Athlete, Thinking

  Tom Brady Press Conference at Gillette Stadium, www.courant.com. January 22, 2015.

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• I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

  Miley Cyrus

  Real, Artist, Want

  "I've never been that person to fake it," says Miley Cyrus". Interview with Denise Quan, edition.cnn.com. September 15, 2009.

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• The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character. Working hard, treating others with respect and honesty-those are the keys to success.

  Hal Urban

  Character, What Matters, Keys

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• there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Truth, Taken

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.5.

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• How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped With the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

  Laurence Sterne

  Integrity, Men, Looks

  Laurence Sterne (1857). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc”, p.548

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• He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Delay, Today, Eternity

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• All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Eye, Atheism, Kind

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• What is more arrogant than honesty?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Arrogant

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.147, Penguin

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• Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Temperature, Absurd, Absolutes

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• Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.

  Akhil Sharma

  Voice, Doctors, Profound

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• I really, really, really, really, really, really, really like girls.

  George Thorogood

  Girl

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• To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.

  William Plomer

  Appetite For Life, Effectiveness, Giving

  Robert Francis Kilvert, William Plomer (1969). “Kilvert's diary: selections from the diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert, 1 January 1870-[13 March 1879]”, Jonathan Cape

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• I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul. I know that what you call "God" actually exists, but in a different way from what you think: as the primal cosmic energy in the universe, as your love in your body, as your honesty and your feeling of nature in you and around you.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Christian, Religious, Believe

  Wilhelm Reich (1948). “Listen, Little Man!: A Document from the Archives of the Orgone Institute”

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