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• Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

  Steven Erikson

  Compassion, Justice, Promise

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• It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist, when the truth is that the internal-combustion engine is the biggest threat to my life in the next 25 years, in terms of what it's doing to our environment and how it's depleting the ozone layer and so forth.

  Bill Maher

  Speaks Out, Issues, Ozone

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are people who believe once somebody gets you a job in show business you are set and the truth is you have to fight for every job. People opened the doors for me for sure and hopefully I've helped open the door for some people but when you're there it's on you and you better be ready for it.

  Tom Arnold

  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

  Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. June 28, 2012.

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• American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.

  RuPaul

  Culture, Denial, Letters

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• The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Entrepreneurship, Cruise, Roller Coaster

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• A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

  Anthony de Mello

  Mean, Simple, Stories

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• The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

  Deborah Harkness

  Spiritual, Study, Witch

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• Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Taken, Cost, Welcome

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• A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Doe, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord”, p.73, Discovery House

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• The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.

  Carson McCullers

  Pain, Hate, Forever

  "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1943)

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• It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.

  Ramesh S Balsekar

  Simple, Reason, Obvious

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• Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

  Douglas Coupland

  Character, Creative, Patterns

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• The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want. They usually do not know what questions must be answered, and they have almost never thought of the problem in the detail that must be specified.

  Fred Brooks

  Important, Details, Want

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• Truth is the summit of being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Summit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.330, Modern Library

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• The truth is, sometimes you have to get left before you can get right. Sometimes God will take you left on your journey to get you right, to do a work in you that will prepare you for what He has for you.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Journey, Sometimes, Gods Will

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• It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

  Rick Yancey

  Beautiful, Lying, Faces

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.158, Penguin

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• Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.

  Faith Hill

  Believe, Heart, Talking

  FaceBook post by Faith Hill from Jan 29, 2013

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• People assume that I came back to Washington because of the Post, but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

  Katharine Weymouth

  Jobs, People, Assuming

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• Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

  Keith Johnstone

  Ideas, Psychotic, Obscene

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.83, Routledge

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• We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Vacuums, Innovative

  "How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life". Book by John C. Maxwell, June 2009.

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• Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Men, Effort

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.94, Modern Library

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• The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Kind, Civility

  P. T. Barnum (2007). “The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money”, p.42, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The truth is that love and power go together.

  Susan Jeffers

  Together

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• The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.

  Mencius

  Way, Highways, Hard

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• God is Truth,
  Truth is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God

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