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Quote by Doris Lessing
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It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – Doris Lessing

Other quotes by Doris Lessing

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But we –were just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything. – Doris Lessing

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Professionalism
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Doris Lessing
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something youve understood all your life, but in a new way. – Doris Lessing

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Learning
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Other Quotes from
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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives… by make-believe. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Truth

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed. – H. L. Mencken

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Truth

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Truth

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