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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the trut

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm. – Louis Farrakhan

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When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. – William Blake

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A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing. – Georges Bataille

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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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