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- Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1946
- The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
- A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.
- O.G. Sutton
- The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
- I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file.
- unattributed truth from r.g.frp
- No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), _Congressional Government_, p. 109
- A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
- Howard Crosby
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