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Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.
Nudity
John Stoltenberg

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
Freedom
I. F. Stone

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Truth
W. Clement Stone

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.
Truth
Lionel Strachey

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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Nagging
Edith Summerskill

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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Lies and Lying
The Talmud

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Mistakes
Jeremy Taylor

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A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
Truth
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Truth
Margaret Thatcher

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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Lies and Lying
Angela Thirkell

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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Truth
Hunter S. Thompson

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Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
Truth
Henry David Thoreau

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It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.
Truth
Henry David Thoreau

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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Poetry and Poets
Henry David Thoreau

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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Truth
Henry David Thoreau

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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Law and Lawyers
Henry David Thoreau

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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Words
Henry David Thoreau

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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
Greatness
Count Leo Tolstoy

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?
Truth
Lily Tomlin

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Truth
Harry S Truman

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Truth
Harry S Truman

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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Deception
Marina Tsvetaeva

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The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.
Soul
Tuckerman

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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
Truth
Turkish Proverb

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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
Lies and Lying
Mark Twain

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun