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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

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What society doesnt realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they dont now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. – Doris Lessing

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Learning
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Doris Lessing
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that nothing succeeds like success. – Doris Lessing

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Success
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Doris Lessing
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The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. – George McGovern

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Truth

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. – Frank Herbert

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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. – Samuel Butler

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You must also give mental and physical fitness priority. – Jim Otto

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A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. – Thomas Macaulay

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Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat. – Craig Bruce

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