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• Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices.

  Michael J. Fox

  Choices, Kind, Situation

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

  Ezra Miller

  Odds, Personal Opinions, Opinion

  Source: collider.com

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• When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

  Frank Sinatra

  Believe, Humility, Want

  Interview with Joe Hyams, reprints.longform.org. February 1963.

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• The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

  Edward Young

  Death, Peace, Nature

  Edward Young (1823). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem”, p.19

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• Sometimes I'm not so sure how healthy it is because it's exhausting to put all your emotion into your work, but I guess I should be thankful for that. I don't want the work to be about anything else but the truth and honesty.

  Jose Parla

  Being Thankful, Healthy, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Redemption is invented by the sinner.

  Lawrence Hill

  Redemption, Sinner

  Lawrence Hill (2008). “Someone Knows My Name: A Novel”, p.417, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You can choose to be civil or not be civil. What is the point of going through the day and think it's cool to wear your honesty on your sleeve at the expense of everyone around you?

  Jennifer Garner

  Thinking, Sleeves, Expenses

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• What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Answers, Said

  Essays "Of Truth" (1625). The Biblical reference is to John 18:38.

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• People love my honesty when it comes to parenting. I really struggled that I wasn't fitting in with the other moms at my kids' school and then one day I said screw it and became even more honest in my stand up and career. I still don't get invited to their parties but I have pretty fun life!

  Heather McDonald

  Mom, Fun, Party

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• There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I've had close relationships with.

  Al Pacino

  Strong, Reality, Men

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, theater, whatever, it's a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just look for if it feels honest and real to me.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Real, Views, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.

  Elijah Wood

  Real, Character, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

  William Ellery Channing

  Strong, Integrity, Men

  William Ellery Channing (1925). “The Liberal Gospel: As Set Forth in the Writings of William Ellery Channing”

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• Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

  George Bancroft

  Hype, Deception, Deceiving

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• The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.

  John Adams

  Simple, People, Simplicity

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.19, Hackett Publishing

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• I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.

  John Adams

  Wise, Blessing, Men

  John Adams (1841). “Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife”, p.267

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• We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God.

  John Taylor

  Believe, Exercise, Law

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• One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns-about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering-in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. We desperately need a public discourse that encourages critical thinking and intellectual honesty. Nothing stands in the way of this project more that the respect we accord religious faith.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Religious, Thinking

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

  Jessamyn West

  Hurt, Trying, Done

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• If there were only one cherry pie in the world, and Bill Clinton owned it, I might get a piece of it. If Bush or Reagan owned it, you'd have to kill them to get a piece of pie. That's my feeling about Bill. And Bill's a good bullshitter. America likes a good bullshitter. That's one of the reasons he was re-elected. Honesty has no place in politics. It would throw everything off.

  George Carlin

  Pie, America, Feelings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

  William James

  Beauty, Beautiful, Wisdom

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• No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

  William Congreve

  Lying, Deceit, Naked

  The Double Dealer act 5, sc. 6 (1694)

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• Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

  Martha Beck

  Dream, Integrity, Lying

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• Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

  William McKinley

  Employment, Capacity, Indispensable

  William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.290, tredition

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• ... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.

  Gloria Steinem

  Powerful, Groups, Might

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.14, Open Road Media

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