Quotes with half-truth

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  • Adlai Stevenson II If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
    Campaign statement in Fresno, California (10 September 1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • George Bernard Shaw If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lily Tomlin If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Candice Millard If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Billy Wilder If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Albert Einstein If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Mark Twain If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Shashi Tharoor If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.
    De grote Indiase roman (1993) 48
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • Tim O'Brien If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.
    De last die ze droegen (1990) 66
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Will Rogers If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bob Kane If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Katharine Hepburn If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • C. S. Lewis If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
    A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • St. John of the Cross If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Emile Zola If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
    Emile Zola
    French writer (1840 - 1902)
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  • Mark Twain If you tell the truth, you have to remember anything.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Pietro Aretino If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
    Pietro Aretino
    Italian writer (1492 - 1556)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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