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Quote by Denis Diderot
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our me

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. – Denis Diderot

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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. – Denis Diderot

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Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route. – Elizabeth Kenny

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If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. – Patrick Kavanagh

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God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. – King Hussein I

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Compromise, hell! … If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time? – Senator Jesse Helms

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