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Truth

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

- James Russell Lowell

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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

- James Russell Lowell

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

- James Russell Lowell

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

- James Russell Lowell

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

- James Russell Lowell

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

- James Russell Lowell

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

- James Russell Lowell

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The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

- David Kay

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

- Marilyn Manson

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

- Edmond Rostand

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

- Barry White

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

- John F. Kennedy