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Our
interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating
truth of the 21st century. One stark result is
that the world's poor live, and especially die,
with the awareness that the United States is doing
little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation
that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually
the escape from poverty.
-- Jeffrey Sachs
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"All
truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted
as being self-evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Because
I have confidence in the power of truth, and of
the spirit, I have confidence in the future of
mankind.
-- Albert Schweitzer
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Truth
has no special time of its own.
Its hour is now - always.
-- Albert Schweitzer
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It
is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule
when it is first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish
to suppose that black men were really human beings and
ought to be treated as such. What was once foolish has
now become a recognized truth. Today it is considered
as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every
form of life as being the serious demand of a rational
ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed
that the human race existed so long before it recognized
that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with
real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended
responsibility to everything that has life.
-- Albert Schweitzer
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New
opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies,
then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions
open to discussion, and finally as established
truths.
-- George Bernard
Shaw
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On
April Fools Day people delight in trying to trick
others with tall tales. Unfortunately, too often
people find themselves falling into the habit
of telling little white lies and tall tales, in
an effort to get ahead or to avoid getting into
trouble. *
Tell
The Truth Day is an opportunity to remind ourselves
that telling the truth is a powerful virtue that
we might sometimes find ourselves bypassing. By
consciously making an effort to be truthful on
Tell The Truth Day, we remember that telling the
truth really is the best policy not just on Tell
The Truth Day, but everyday.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
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"I
would like the church to be a place where the
questions of people are honored rather than a
place where we have all the answers. The church
has to get out of propaganda. The future will
involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We
cannot say we have the only truth."
-- Bishop John Shelby
Spong
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*
Reformers
who are always compromising, have not yet grasped
the idea that truth is the only safe ground
to stand upon. --
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The
moment we begin to fear the opinions of others
and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us,
and from motives of policy are silent when we
should speak, the divine floods of light and
life no longer flow into our souls --
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We
hold these truths to be self evident: that all
men and women are created equal.
-- Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
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The
truth will set you free. But first, it will piss
you off.
-- Gloria Steinem
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I
can't tell you how many times we'll run into a journalist
and go, "Boy that's…I wish we could be saying that.
That's exactly the way we see it and that's exactly
the way we'd like to be saying that." And I always
think, "Well, why don't you?"
-- Jon Stewart
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Fear
grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around,
turn on the light.
-- Dorothy Thompson
There
is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to
find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze
the causes of happenings.
-- Dorothy Thompson
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The
lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or
a consistent expediency.
-- Henry David
Thoreau
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Unity
without verity is no better than conspiracy.
-- John Trapp
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Always
tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember
what you said.
-- Mark Twain
When
in doubt, tell the truth.
-- Mark Twain
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In
religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and
without examination, from authorities who have not themselves
examined the questions at issue but have taken them
at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions
about them were not worth a brass farthing.
-- Mark Twain
As
long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue
to commit atrocities.
-- Voltaire
There
are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It
is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the
devil.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
The
pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-- Oscar Wilde
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