Quote by Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. – Winston Churchill

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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. – Winston Churchill

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Time
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. – Winston Churchill

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. – Winston Churchill

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. – Adlai Stevenson

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. – Mark Twain

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The truth needs so little rehearsal. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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Honesty

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. – Robin Tyler

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