Quote by Martha Gellhorn
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. – Martha Gellhorn

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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? Its great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but Im not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who havent done what they wanted with their lives. – Martha Gellhorn

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After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. – Martha Gellhorn

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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it. – Patrick Henry

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous. – Proverb

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well. – Robert Herrick

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Thus, while many minority groups are the target for prejudice (beliefs) and discrimination (actions) in our society, few persons face this hostility without the support and acceptance of their family as do many gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth. – Virginia Uribe and Karen M. Harbeck, 1992

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Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington. – John Boehner

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