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all else fails, tell the truth.''
Donald T. Regan, 20th-century American business executive, Treasury
Secretary, chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan
A
lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Edgar J. Mohn
If
you add to the truth, you subtract from it.
The Talmud
What
you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
Jewish proverb
Truth
is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin'
away.
Elvis Presley
The
great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie deliberate,
contrived, and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and
realistic.
John F. Kennedy, 20th-century American president (from the Yale
Commencement address, 1962)
A
belief is not true because it is useful.
Henri Amiel
The
house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A.E. Housman
When
somebody lies, somebody loses.
Stephanie Ericsson
"Flattery
makes friends, truth enemies."
Spanish proverb
"Lying
can never save us from another lie."
Vaclav Havel, 20th-century Czech poet and political activist, first
president of post-Communist Republic
"We
have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready to call it
falsehood tomorrow."
William James, 19th-century American philosopher and author
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