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If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?
Gene Wilder
If you're not gonna be honest, then why bother speaking?
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Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.
Mother Angelica
'Truth speakers care for you. Those who flatter themselves love only themselves.'
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I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have Loved, will realise the Lord
Guru Gobind Singh
I declare the facts; harken all. Those who have experienced Love, will understand the Divine.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth
Sitting Bull
It takes few words to express veracity.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
St. Catherine of Siena
Declare the facts and do not stay quiet out of trepidation.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
Virginia Woolf
A feminist is any female who candidly reveals her circumstances.
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I tell the truth. And I know what I'm talking about. That's why I'm a threat.
Snoop Dogg
I speak honestly. And I am well-informed. That is why I pose a danger.
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Therefore, faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, tell the truth, learn the truth, defend the truth even to death.
Jan Hus
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But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
Howard Zinn
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The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.
Miriam Makeba
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
Albert Camus
14.
I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.
SZA
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The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.
Chris Hedges
16.
If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory
Judy Sheindlin
19.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
June Jordan
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Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.
Lerone Bennett, Jr.
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A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
Neville Cardus
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You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.
Philip Roth
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury
25.
Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor.
Charles Willeford
26.
Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.
James Cagney
27.
Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.
David Ogilvy
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Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.
Ken Loach
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
Vanessa Kerry
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My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
Gerry Spence
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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.
Mark Twain
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One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.
P. G. Wodehouse
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
Adrienne Rich
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
Ramakrishna
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I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
Sigmund Freud
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The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
Cornel West
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When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
Bell Hooks
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At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.
Larry Clark
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The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware.
Jacques Ellul
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Love everyone, serve everyone, remember God, and tell the truth.
Neem Karoli Baba
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There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.
Curt Flood
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Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.
Gerald May
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
Waris Dirie
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In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
June Jordan