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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they wa

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. – Oscar Wilde

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. – J.B.S. Haldane

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. – Florence Nightingale

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows. – Gabriel Peri

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