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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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• 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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• I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

  Brandi Carlile

  Intellectual, Titles, Claims

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our‘Let It Be.’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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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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• 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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• Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Horse, Race, Europe

  "End horror of horses led to slaughter" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2010.

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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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• Custom without truth is error grown old.

  Tertullian

  Errors, Customs

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• Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

  Michael Parenti

  Lying, Dirty, Practice

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.132, City Lights Books

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• He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

  John Tillotson

  Journey, Tasks, World

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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 that love and power go together.

  Susan Jeffers

  Together

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• Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Men, Thinking, Self

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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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• If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of nature, justly held to be the common and noblest heritage of the human race, will not be spared. Thus, truth being gradually obscured by darkness, pernicious and manifold error, as too often happens, will easily prevail.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Writing, Errors, Race

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.108, TAN Books

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• The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

  Tom Shadyac

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Justice, Pure

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Peter Preuss (1980). “On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life: Part II of Thoughts Out of Season”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

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• Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Law, People

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• The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Running, Truth, Honesty

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The truth is the river flows into the canyon
  Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us,
  As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

  Robert Frost

  Rivers, Flow, Canyons

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

  Plato

  Truth, Essence, Generations

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