Quote by Hannah Arendt
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. – Hannah Arendt

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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. – Hannah Arendt

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. – Hannah Arendt

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes. – Hannah Arendt

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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. – Walter Cronkite

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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty. – Tacitus

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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. – Dorothy L. Sayers

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Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And dont forget when you leave why you came. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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